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Author of ,,( The Second Declaration of Independence” 
“A Lawyer’s Idea of {he Divinitp of Christ”, etc. 



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The Science of Governmental 
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It is a self evident fact that the Great Creator of 
the Universe has certain laws for the guidance of all 
his creation. In the machinery of the heavens, “We 
behold spheres, enormous spheres in free and bound¬ 
less space, without any material or visible connection, 
separated by spaces that can only be estimated by 
millions of miles, yet affecting one another powerfully, 
constantly, and infallibly. Here are worlds on worlds 
of every magnitude, and placed at every distance- 
planets and rings and satellites-all in ceaseless rota¬ 
tion, and all careering through the trackless void with 
velocities appalling to contemplate, without any visible 
power or agency to produce their motions, or to guide 
them in their unmarked and mighty circuits, yet every 
one completing its daily rotation, and accomplishing 
its annual round of hundreds of millions of miles, with¬ 
out deviating the fraction of a minute from age to age, 
and from century to century.” 

“These stupendous evolutions all, as commonly 
viewed and expressed, are affected by the laws of 
nature, the laws of motion and gravitation.” 

But these laws can do nothing of themselves, 
neither can the dead, dark cold unconscious materials 
of the planets. 

Says Whewell, “Law implies an agent, and a 
power, for it is the mode according to which any agent 
proceeds, the order according to which the power 
acts. Without the presence of such an agent, of such a 
power, conscious of the relations on which the law 
depends, producing the effects which the law pre¬ 
scribes, the law can have no efficacy. Hence, we in¬ 
fer that the Intelligence by which the law is ordained, 





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the power by which it is put in action, must be present 
at all times and in all places where the effects of the 
law occur; that thus the knowledge and the agency of 
the Divine Being pervade every portion of the uni¬ 
verse producing all action and passion, all permanence 
and change. The laws of nature are the laws which 
He in His wisdom prescribes to His own acts; His 
universal presence is the necessary condition of any 
course of events, His universal agency the only origin 
of any efficient force.” 

This is the correct view of the law of nature. 
There must necessarily be an ever present Being keep¬ 
ing that law in habitual use in the operation of the 
machinery of the heavens, and that Being can be no 
other than its Author. We, therefore, ascribe the 
creation of Our Planetary System, its preservation 
through the ages, and its movements all through every 
moment to the direct and immediate agency of the 
Great Jehovah. 

“Its light, its motion, its existance, owe their con¬ 
tinuance to Him. It is HIS right hand, under the name 
of ‘attraction,’ that holds the planets from forsaking 
the sun; and HIS left, under that of ‘centrifugal force,’ 
that keeps them from approaching Him. What we 
call ‘rotation’ is but His agency whirling them upon 
their axes; and what we term their ‘velocity’ is but 
His power carrying them forward in their orbits. The 
perfection of their movements is the perfection of His 
operations; And their ceaseless evolutions the sensible 
manifestations of the ceaseless emanation of His 
power, by which they are produced.’’ 

‘‘By the word of His power all things exist.” 
Joseph Cook in his lectures on ‘‘Communion with God 
as Personal,” says: ‘‘There can be no thought without 
a thinker. There is thought in the universe, therefore, 
there is a Personal Thinker in the universe.” 

We are dazed with wonder and great admiration 
as we gaze into the heavens and behold His handi¬ 
work therein, and marvelous as it is,' the crowning 
work of the Great Creator, is 


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MAN. 

In His creation of man He did not constitute him 
a mere piece of machinery to be operated by Him 
under set rules of His making, as in the case of the 
planetary system, but He endowed him with such 
intelligence as enables him to have an individuality 
of his own, and then laid down for his guidance cer¬ 
tain rules of action, which rules are designated as the 
law of nature and the divine or revealed law, found in 
the Holy Scriptures. This Book of Books tells us 
that man was created a little lower than God, and in 
His likeness and image. That is with a spirit reflec¬ 
ting His image and likeness, and intelligence and power 
to take his place in the world and of himself, execute 
the will of God; and having that intelligence and 
power to obey Him it necessarily follows, that while he 
has not the RIGHT to disobey Him he has the CAPAC¬ 
ITY to do so. To illustrate, a man in walking 
through a field comes to a deep pond. Now God 
would have him go to the right or left around the 
pond in safety, but having the power to do that he 
necessarily has the power conferred upon him to dis¬ 
obey his Creator by plunging into the pond and com¬ 
mitting suicide. 

It is interesting, indeed, to note that God, in 
creating Adam, not only made him perfect in body, 
but endowed him with knowledge and understanding. 

“And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden; 
and there he put the man whom he had formed, and 
out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every 
tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food, and 
the Lord God took the man and put him into the 
garden of Eden to dress it and keep it.” 

Gen. 2-8,9,1 5. 

“And out of the ground the Lord God formed 
every beast of the field and every fowl of the air; and 
brought them unto Adam to see what he would call 
them; and whatsoever Adam called every creature, 
that was the name thereof. 


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And Adam gave name to all cattle and to the 
fowls of the air, and to every beast of the field; but 
for Adam there was not found a help meet for him— 
And the Lord caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam 
and he slept and He took one of his ribs, and closed 
up the flesh instead thereof; and the rib which the 
Lord God had taken from man, made He a woman 
and brought her unto the man. 

And Adam said, this is now bone of my bone 
and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called WOMAN, 
because she was taken out of MAN.” 

Gen. 2-19,20,21,22,23. 

“And God blessed them and God said unto them, 
be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth, and 
subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the 
sea and fowl of the air, and over every living thing 
that moveth upon the earth.” 

Gen. 1-28. 

This sketch of the origin of man disproves the 
theory that he was naturally and originally a savage, 
living in a damp gloomy cave on roots, acorns, and 
nuts in an uncivilized state like a brute. 

It proves to the contrary, viz; that he was a civi¬ 
lized being naturally and originally. 

He cultivated the earth and named every living 
thing and had dominion over them. He established 
the marriage relations in all its sacredness. 

We admit, there were periods among different 
peoples, of living in a condition similar to that of the 
brute creation, and that a low state of existance may be 
found at the present time in some sections of the earth, 
but this is the result of degeneracy of man from his 
original mental state. 

The tendency of man is to degenerate rather than 
to mount higher in powers. Sir Wm. Dawson says; 
“All things left to themselves tend to degenerate, cells 
organisms, even whole races are subject to degenera¬ 
tion and decay.” 

Intellectually, Greece has declined greatly from 


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what she was 2500 years ago. We are not the equals 
of the ancient Greeks, intellectually. 

Galton says that “The average ability of the Ath¬ 
enian race (was), on the lowest possible estimate, very 
nearly two grades higher than our own; that is about 
as much as our race is above that of the African Negro; 
while Freeman and Mahaffy declare that “The average 
intelligence of the assembled Athenian citizens was 
higher than that of the English House of Commons, 
which is generally conceded to be the most dignified 
of modern legislative assemblies.” 

Instead of the rude hut such as would be adap¬ 
ted to the wild, roving savage being of the earliest 
mode of shelter, thirteen centuries passed before that 
kind of a structure was known. Fixed habitations 
were of prior origin, and these somtimes in such num¬ 
bers in close proximity to each other as to consti¬ 
tute cities and towns, a mode of life indicating civili¬ 
zation. 

The first of the species born of woman built a 
city, (Gen. 4-17) and the tent was not known for 
more than one thousand years thereafter. Says an 
eminent author, “Houses preceded tents; towns and 
cities went before encampments. The settled was 
anterior to the wandering and nomadic life.” 

Adam, upon leaving the garden, entered upon the 
pursuit of agriculture, (Gen. 3-23), an employment 
not practiced by the savage, and requiring a fixed 
habitation. 

“Language originated not on earth, but in Heav¬ 
en, was the mention of God not of man. So the Bible 
teaches; so human reason unperverted, teaches.” 

From the hour that human lips uttered a syllable 
down to the time of the immigration to the planes of 
Shinar only one language prevailed among mankind. 
“The whole earth was of one language (lip) and of 
one speech.” 

At the Tower of Babel, God was the origin of 
several languages, that mankind might be benefited 
thereby, and the whole earth populated. 


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Man was not only taught speech by God, but, 
undoubtedly, written characters of that speech. Writ¬ 
ing is an art, which once lost, is lost forever. 

It stands to reason, therefore, that written lang¬ 
uage is a divine gift. When we consider the history 
of the origin of speech and written language as given 
us in the Bible and its harmony with scientific proof, 
that in the natural development the power of speech 
is never attained, we must admit that savagery and bar¬ 
barism were not co-existent with primitive man, but 
the result of retrogression of man. 

The second chapter of Genesis gives us the history 
of the most perfect civilization ever attained. 

In the British Museum may be seen the Tel-el- 
Amarna tablets containing writings which date back 
one hundred years before the days of Moses; and also 
a copy of the enormous black stone eight feet high 
discovered by M. de Morgan at Susa, containing the 
written laws of King Hammurabi, who lived five hund¬ 
red years before Moses. 

Professor Flinders Petrie says, “We have no 
monumental evidence of any time when the Accadian 
people of Babylonia were destitute of writing and 
science; and we now find that there were learned 
scribes in all the cities of Canaan, and that the Phoeni¬ 
cians and Southern Arabians knew their alphabet ages 
before Moses, while even the Greeks seem to have 
known alphabetic writing long before the Mosaic age.” 

The Dean of Canterbury, in his speech on the his¬ 
torical accuracy of the Bible said; “All recent investi¬ 
gation went to show that writing was in vogue long be¬ 
fore the time of Abraham.” 

Mr. Horatio Hale, proves that primitive man in 
his earliest state must have been endowed with as high 
intellectual powers as any of his descendants. 

Sir J. W. Dawson, in an able paper on this sub¬ 
ject, says, “the earliest remains of man show that man’s 
earliest state was his best.” 

Natural religion, while it suggests God, says noth¬ 
ing of one God. As the light of revelation dawns man 


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finds God regnant over all the diverse elements, and 
operations of nature. 

The only religion which has remained mono¬ 
theistic is that one, which from the day of Moses has 
held the written Word as the rule. 

MAN IS A SOCIAL ANIMAL 

Man at his birth knows even less than do the 
animals under him at their birth and left to grow to 
maturity without seeing or hearing a fellow being, he 
will remain the infant, in intellect, that he was when 
born. Man cannot of himself, lift himself from the 
darkness of infancy. He grows and developes intel¬ 
lectually, by absorption of what he hears and sees 
and reads in his environment. 

Kasper Hauser, incarcerated in a dungeon in 
Germany where neither light nor sound could reach 
him, at the age of seventeen was still a mental infant, 
crying and chattering with no more intelligence than a 
babe. As Tennyson describes, he was, 

“An infant crying in the night, 

An infant crying for the light, 

And with no language but a cry.” 

Man being a social animal and it being necessary 
that he should have society for his intellectual growth, 
and as society cannot exist without government there 
can be no conclusion to be arrived at other than that, 

MAN IS A POLITICAL ANIMAL BY NATURE. 

Men have been forced to organize themselves 
into separate and distinct governments for protection 
in their natural rights, but in the light of the history 
of man it stands to reason that God must have im¬ 
planted in the bosom of man that which moves him 
to the organization of government by election. 

In the garden of Eden God established a govern- 


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ment, brought into existance the science of politics 
just as clearly as He did man himself. Under that 
government man was to dress and keep the growth of 
that portion of the earth set apart for his comfort and 
happiness, and he was not to eat of the forbidden 
fruit. There were two political parties in that govern¬ 
ment. Each desired to rule. God and His angels 
were one party and the devil and his were the other. 
God had established a form of government and was 
ruling it. The devil desired to change the form of 
government and rule it. So the struggle between the 
powers of darkness and of light began, and that 
struggle has been growing more fierce and wide 
spread ever since. 

One of the purposes of this writing is to expose 
the misuse that is being made of the doctrine of 
separation of Church and State. We as a nation, have 
always adhered to this doctrine, in so far as it refers 
to church denominationalism, which is right and prop¬ 
er; but whenever we recognize the sovereignty of 
God in Government in any way, the charge is made 
that we are uniting church and state. In this Country 
we recognize God as the Supreme Being, and the Bible 
as the Holy Scriptures; and this being true, there can 
be no denying the fact, that the legitimate business of 
the government of man, is to see that all governmental 
policies are in harmony with the laws of nature and 
the divine or revealed law. In the words of Dr. 
Arnold, 

“THE IDEAL CHURCH AND STATE ARE ONE.” 

By that I mean, with the government of men op¬ 
erating in harmony with the laws of God we have the 
church (pure Christianity) and state rightfully united. 
No one can gainsay or deny this. I cannot conceive 
how any reasonable being can entertain the thought 
that government should be run out of harmony with 
the will of our Creator in order that church and state 
may not be united. Such a proposition is unthinkable 


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on the part of any one who reasons. Saul of Tar¬ 
sus, the greatest lawyer that was ever born, said; “Let 
every soul be subject to the power of God for there is 
no power but of God. The powers that be are or¬ 
dained of God.” Saul knew that man is both a social 
and a political animal, that society and government are 
necessary for his development and protection; so he 
appeals to man to acquaint himself with the power of 
God that he may be capable of organizing human gov¬ 
ernment on such principles as are ordained of God 
and thereby claim for the same authority to act by 
divine right. 

The government that re-enacts the laws of nature 
and the divine laws revealed in Holy Scripture and 
enforces them conforms to the Supreme Rule and 
therefore becomes one of the powers that be. Saul 
contends that this is the only form of Government 
that has any right to exist in his declaration that 
“There is no power but of God, the powers that be 
are ordained of God.” Any government, therefore, 
formed on the principles of his satanic majesty is a 
sham and a fraud, having no right to exist or rightful 
power to enforce its mandates. 

Says J. Munson Olmstead; “Civil society is an 
ordinance of God; it must be established, therefore, up¬ 
on the principles upon which God was established.” 
Government, in its broadest sense, is the rule or com¬ 
mand of sovereignty. God is the sovereignty, and 
in His government He has established certain laws 
which are immutable, and may be termed as the 
World’s constitution, for the guidance of the several 
nations, in the framing of their form of government 
and enactment of their laws. 

Among His laws are what are known as the laws 
of nature. Bouvier describes these as follows: “The 
laws of nature are that God, the sovereignty of the 
universe, has prescribed to all men, not by any formal 
promulgation, but by the internal dictates of reason 
alone. They are discovered by a just consideration 
of the agreeableness or disagreeableness of human ac- 


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tions to the nature of men; and they comprehend all 
the duties to which we owe to the Supreme Being, to 
ourselves or to our neighbors; as reverence to God, 
self-defence, temperance, honor to our parents, benev¬ 
olence to all, a strict adherence to our engagements,“ 
gratitude and the like.” William S. Seward, on the 
floor of the United States Senate, thrilled the nation 
with the declaration, ‘‘There is a higher power than the 
constitution to regulate the authority of Congress over 
the national domain, the law of God and the interests 
of humanity.” Mr. Seward put the law of God above 
the constitution of the nation. 

Blackstone, in the English Commentator, says; 
‘‘As man depends absolutely upon his Maker for every 
thing it is necessary that he should conform in all points 
to his Maker s will. This will of his Maker is called 
the law of nature. The law of nature being coeval 
with mankind and dictated by God himself, is, of 
course, superior in obligation to any other. It is bind¬ 
ing over all the Globe, in all countries and at all times; 
no human law are of any validity if contrary to this; 
and such of them as are valid derive all their force and 
all their authority mediately or immediately from this 
original. The divine or revealed law is to be found in 
the Holy Scriptures and is a part of the original law of 
nature. Upon these two foundations, the law of nature 
and the law of revelation depend all human laws: that 
is to say, no human law should be suffered to contra¬ 
dict these.” 

Before the rebellion there was a law in Illinois to 
the effect, that any white person caught in the act of 
giving aid or sustenance to a colored man, woman or 
child, should be arrested, and upon proof of the 
charge, should be cast into prison for two years. Hon. 
John P. St.John, ex-governor of Kansas was practic¬ 
ing law, at the time in Illinois, and a little colored lad 
came to his door and said; ‘‘Please mister, won t you 
give me something to eat? 1 haven’t had anything to 
eat for two days.” St. John called his wife and told 
her to get the boy a big slice of bread, butter it all over 


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and bring him out some meat. “Would it not be 
better” she said, “to have the boy come into the house, 
as every body seems to be watching us?” Mr. St. 
John said, “No, I want the people to see that I am not 
afraid to give to and sustain any of God’s unfortu¬ 
nates.” The Grand Jury was in session at the time, 
and an indictment was found against Mr. St. John for 
giving sustenance to a negro. He was accordingly ar¬ 
rested and brought before the court and pleaded 
guilty to the charge, and stated in open court that he 
would do so again; and whenever he found the laws of 
man interfering with the laws of God, he would violate 
the human law every time. The court announced to 
the packed house that he found the prisoner at the 
bar “not guilty of the charge” and he was set free. 
The duties of a judge as defined by Blackstone, is as 
follows: 

“A judge is sworn to determine, not according to 
his own private judgement, but according to the known 
laws and customs of the land; not delegated to pro¬ 
nounce a new law, but to maintain and expound the 
old one. Yet, this rule admits of exception where the 
former determination is most evidently contrary to rea¬ 
son, much more if it be clearly contrary to the Divine 
Law.” 

That judge knew the making it a crime to feed 
a colored person was clearly and indesputably contrary 
to God’s law; that God would have us feed all who 
are suffering with hunger, including both man and 
beast and so to avoid the enforcement of such a so- 
called law he found the prisoner at the bar “not 
guilty.” 

It is said, the character of a man is made a hun¬ 
dred years before he is born. So it is with nations. 
The character of this nation was made a hundred years 
prior to its birth. Way back in 1493, one year after 
the discovery of America by Columbus, the first five 
books of the old Testament, and the Gospel narrative 
were translated into English in England—then followed 
other translations, and in 1360, what is known as the 



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Geneva Bible came out. It proved a great attraction 
to the Puritans and was in almost every house. Final¬ 
ly in 1611, King James’ version was published, which 
is the “authorized version”, wherever the English lan¬ 
guage is spoken. This is the Bible that our forefathers 
brought with them to America. This is the Bible on 
which this nation was founded. Without this Bible 
this nation never would have been born. The Declar¬ 
ation of Independence is the quintessence of the Bible 
—the Bible which this government officially recognizes 
as the Holy Scriptures. 

“All the distinctive features and superiority of our 
republican institutions are derived from the teachings 
oi Scripture.” 

“I do not believe human society, including not 
merely a few persons in any state but whole masses 
of men, ever has attained, or ever can attain a high 
state of intelligence, virtue, security, liberty, or happi¬ 
ness without the Holy Scriptures.” 

—William H. Seward. 

“All that is best in the civilization of today, is 
the fruit of Christ’s appearance among men.” 

—Daniel Webster. 

“No true civilization can be expected permanent¬ 
ly to continue which is not based on the great princi¬ 
ples of Christianity.”—Tyron Edwards. 

“No civilization other than that which is Christian, 
is worth seeking or possessing.” 

“There is no greater fool than he who says, 
‘There is no God’, unless it be he who says he does 
not know whether there is or not.” Bismark. 

“A great war leaves a country with three armies— 
an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an 
army of thieves.”—German Proverb. 

Had Germany been blessed with a civilization that 
was Christian, in accordance with the teachings of 
Bismark; or had she taken to heart her above men¬ 
tioned proverb she never would have begun the war 
of 19 14-’ 18. Instead, her civilization at that time is 
defined in an editorial of one of the leading journals 


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of Germany in September, 1914, which reads as 
follows: 

“There are two kinds of races—master races and 
inferior races. Political rights belong to the master 
race alone, and can be won only by war. This is a 
scientific law, a law of biology.” 

That is Darwinism and Germany’s justification 
in bringing about a world war. Germany with her 
superior record of only one in five thousand illiterates 
furnish a startling example of an education that does 
not touch the heart, she breaking all records for cruel¬ 
ty and war crime in the world war. The great need of 
the hour is an education of the heart, such as would 
be received in Bible reading in the public schools. 

“He who shall introduce into public affairs the 
principles of primitive Christianity will revolutionize 
the world.”—Franklin. 

“The religion of Christ has made a republic 
like ours possible; and the more we have of this re¬ 
ligion the better the republic.”—H. M. Field. 

“Independent with its connection with human des¬ 
tiny hereafter, the fate of republican government is 
indissolubly bound up with the fate of the Christian 
religion, and a people who reject its holy faith will 
find themselves the slaves of their own evil passions 
and of arbitrary power.”—Lewis Cass. 

“Christianity is the basis of republican govern¬ 
ment, its bond of cohesion and its life giving law. 
More than the Magna Carta itself, the Gospels are the 
roots of English liberty. The Magna Carta, and the 
Petition of Right, with our completing Declaration, was 
possible only because the Gospels had been before 
them.”—R. S. Storrs. 

“Bible Christianity is the companion of liberty 
in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy and divine 
source of its claims.”—De Tocqueville. 

“It is impossible to mentally or socially enslave 
a Bible-reading people. The principles of the Bible 
are the ground work of human freedom.” 

—Horace Greely. 


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Greely read the Bible through when he was six 
years old. 

In 1891 the officers of the church of the Holy 
Trinity of New York City contracted with an alien 
minister residing in England to serve their church as 
its minister. These officers were prosecuted for vio¬ 
lating the act of Congress prohibiting the contracting 
with an alien to perform labor or service of any kind 
in the United States, and were convicted and fined 
$ 1000 . 00 . 

An Appeal was taken to the United States Su¬ 
preme Court, and this Court handed its decision down 
in 1892. This decision ought to be read in every 
school room in the United States. It is reported in 
United States Supreme Court Reports 143-146 Page 
226. It gives in detail the position of the govern¬ 
ment and of the people concerning the Christian Re¬ 
ligion. The following quotations are taken from this 
decision. 

“No purpose of action against religion can be 
imputed to any legislation, state or nation, because 
this is a religious people. This is historically true. 
From the discovery of this continent to the present 
hour there is a single voice making this affirmation. 
The commission to Christopher Columbus, prior to his 
sail westward, is from ‘Ferdinand and Isabella, by the 
grace of God, King and Queen of Castile’, etc., and re¬ 
cites that “it is hoped that, by God’s assistance some 
of the continents and islands in the ocean will be dis¬ 
covered,’’ etc. 

The first colonial grant, that was made to Sir 
Walter Raleigh in 1584, was from Elizabeth by the 
grace of God, of England, France and Ireland, queen, 
defender of the faith, etc.; and the grant authorizing 
him to enact statutes for the government of the pro¬ 
posed colony provided that “they be not against the 
true Christian faith now professed in the church of 
England.’’ 

The first charter of Virginia, granted by King 
James 1 commenced the charter in these words: ‘We, 


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greatly commending and graciously accepting of the 
desires of the furtherance of so noble a work, which 
may, by the province of Almighty God, hereafter tend 
to the glory of Divine Majesty in propagating the 
Christian religion to such people as yet live in darkness 
and miserable ignorance of the true knowledge and 
worship of God.’ Language of similar import may 
be found in the subsequent charters of that colony, 
from the same king, in 1609 and 1611; and the same 
is true of the various charters granted to the other 
colonies. In language more or less emphatic is the 
establishment of the Christian religion, declared to be 
one of the purposes of the grant. 

The fundamental orders of Connecticut, under 
which a provisional government was instituted in 1638- 
1639, commence with this declaration; ‘Forasmuch as 
it hath pleased the Almighty God by the wise dispo¬ 
sition of his divyne pruidence so to order and dispose 
of things that we, the inhabitants and residents of 
Windsor; Hartford and Wethersfield are now cohabit¬ 
ing and dwelling in and upon the river of Conecte- 
cotte and the lands thereunto adjoyneing; And well 
knowing where a people are gathered together the 
word of God requires that to mayntayne the peace and 
union of such a people there should be an orderly and 
decent government established according to God, to 
Older and dispose of the affayres of the people at all 
seasons as occation shall require; doe therefore as- 
sotiate and conioyne our selues to be as one Publike 
State or Comonwelth; for and doe, for our selues and 
our Successors and such as shall be adjoyned to us att 
any tyme hereafter, enter into Combination and Con¬ 
federation together, to maintayne and preserve the 
liberty and purity of the gospel! of our Lord Jesus 
which we now professe, as also the disciplyne of the 
Churches, which according to the truth of the said gos- 
pell is now practiced amongst us.’ 

The Declaration of Independence recognizes the 
presence of the Divine in human affaires. 

If we examine the constitutions of the various 



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states we find them a constant recognition of religious 
obligation. 

Articles 2 and 3 of part 1st, of the constitution 
of Massachusetts, 1 780, says; 

‘It is the right as well as the duty of all men in 
society publicly and at stated seasons, to worship the 
Supreme Being, the great Creator and Preserver of 
the universe. As the happiness of a people and go od 
order and preservation of civil government essentially 
depend upon piety, religion, and morality, and as 
these cannot be generally diffused through a communi¬ 
ty but by the institution of a public worship of God 
and morality: Therefore to promote their happiness 
and to secure the good order and preservation of 
their government the people of this commonwealth 
have a right to invest their legislature with power to 
autherize and require and the legislature shall, from 
time to time autherize and require, the several towns, 
parishes, precincts, and other bodies-politic or religious 
societies to make suitable provision at their own ex¬ 
pense, for the institution of the public worship of God 
and for the support and maintenance of Public Pro¬ 
testant teachers of piety, religion and morality in all 
cases where such provision shall not be made volun¬ 
tarily.’ Or as in sections 5 and 14 of Article 7 of the 
constitution of Mississippi, 1832: ‘No person who de¬ 
nies the being of a God, or a future state of rewards 
and punishments, shall hold any office in the civil 
department of this state. Religion, morality and 
knowledge being necessary to good government, the 
preservation of liberty, and the happiness of man¬ 
kind, schools and the means of education, shall for¬ 
ever be encouraged in this state.’ Or by Article 22 
of the constitution of Delaware, 1 776, which required 

all officers, besides an oath of allegiance, to make and 
subscribe the following declaration. ‘I, A. B. do pro¬ 
fess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ His 
only Son, and in the Holy Ghost, one God, blessed 
for evermore; and I do acknowledge the Holy Scrip- 


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tures of the Old and New Testament to be given by 
divine inspiration.’ 

Even the Constitution of the United States pro¬ 
vides in article 1, section 7 that the Executive shall 
have ten days (Sundays excepted) within which to de¬ 
termine whether he will approve or veto a bill. (While 
it is generally held that the Constitution of the United 
States fails to acknowledge God as the Supreme Being 
it can be seen that it does in this article; and in ad¬ 
dition to that the Declaration of Independence having 
been adopted by Congress, necessitates our taking it in¬ 
to consideration in our interperation of the National 
Constitution, and God is acknowledged therein in four 
different places. The Federal Court has said that we 
must read the Constitution of the Nation in the spirit 
of the Declaration of Independence.—Author.) 

There is no dissonance in these declarations. 
There is a universal language pervading them all, 
having one meaning; they affirm and reaffirm that 
this is a religious nation. These are not individual 
sayings, declarations of private persons; THEY ARE 
ORGANIC UTTERANCES: THEY SPEAK THE 
VOICE OF THE ENTIRE PEOPLE. 

In the famous case of Vidal vs. Girard, 43 U. S. 
2 How. 12 7, 198 (1 1;205, 234), this court; while 
sustaining the will of Mr. Girard, with its provision for 
the creation of college into which no minister should 
be permitted to enter, observed; ‘It is also said, and 
truly, that the christian religion is a part of the common 
law of Pennsylvania’. 

If we pass beyond these matters to a view of 
American life as expressed by its laws, its business, its 
customs and its society, we find every where a clear 
recognition of the same truth. These and many other 
matters which might be noticed, ALL A VOLUME OF 
UNOFFICIAL DECLARATIONS TO THE MASS 
OF ORGANIC UTTERANCES THAT THIS IS A 
CHRISTIAN NATION. 

In the face of all these, shall it be believed that a 
congress of the United States intended to make it a 



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misdemeanor for a church of this country to contract 
for the services of a Christian Minister residing in an¬ 
other nation? 

It is the duty of the court, under these circum¬ 
stances, to say, that however broad the language of 
the statute may be, the act, although within the letter 
is not within the intention of the legislature, and there¬ 
fore cannot be within the statute.” 

In the above decision, 

THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT, 
THE HIGHEST LEGAL AUTHORITY IN THE 
LAND, SUBSTANTIALLY DECLARES, JUDICI¬ 
ALLY, THAT THIS IS A CHRISTIAN NATION 
AND THAT THE BIBLE IS A PART OF THE COM¬ 
MON LAW OF THE LAND. 

Chancellor Kent, author of “Commentaries on 
American Law” says; “It is the established doctrine, 
that English Statutes, passed before the emigration of 
our ancestors, and applicable to our situation and in 
amendment of the law constitute a part of the common 
law of this country. 

The common law and statutes of England were 
imported by our colonial ancestors as far as it was 
applicable and was sanctioned by our royal charters 
and Colonial statutes on American law. 

The constitution of New York of 1777 declared 
that such parts of the common law of England and of 
the statute laws of England and Great Britian as to¬ 
gether with the acts of the colonial legislature formed 
the law of the colony on the 19th of April, 1 775 shall 
continue to be the law of the state.” 

In Binn’s Justice, 10th edition 1895, we read: 
‘The common law is founded upon the general cus¬ 
toms of the realm, and includes in it the law of nature, 
the law of God and the principles and maxims of the 
law; it is founded upon the law of God and the princi¬ 
ples and maxims of the law; it is founded upon reason; 
and is said to be the perfection of reason acquired by 
long, study observation and experience, and refined by 
learned men in all ages. It is plain to be seen, there- 


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23 


fore, that King James’ version of the Bible is a part 
of the common law of this land, by inheritance from 
the Mother Country. It is more than that, under the 
principles of our government as set forth in the Dec¬ 
laration of Independence, it is the law on all moral 
questions; and to deviate from it in our so-called laws 
upon the statute books is to usurp our authority as a 
nation. 

In 1821, one Abner Updegraph, of Pittsburg, Pa., 
was convicted before the Court of Quarter Sessions for 
vilifying the Christian religion in a debate, he arguing 
that while there was some good things in the Bible, 
yet it contained many lies. Updegraph appealed the 
case to the Supreme Court of Pa., and that tribunal 
held as follows: “The true principles of natural re¬ 
ligion are a part of the common law. Christianity is 
a part of the common law of this land and of Pa. To 
revile the Holy Scriptures is an indictable offence, with¬ 
out these restraints it would be liberty run mad.” 

“This government is founded on the equality 
and brotherhood of men.” The doctrine of medieval 
times was that “Might makes right.” If a nation pos¬ 
sessed enough arbitaray power and physical force to 
accomplish a certain end, no matter how criminally ag¬ 
gressive, no matter how tyranical, or despotic that end 
might be, the power to do was always supposed to 
prove the rightfulness of the thing done. 

And back of that time, in the days of the Roman 
republic that nation held to the doctrine of “Vox 
Populi Vox Dei.” In other words the Roman doctrine 
was that if a majority of the people approved of a 
thing, it must be right. 

The Declaration of Independence disavows, dis¬ 
claims and discards both the Roman and medieval 
theories. 

In the last paragraph it is written that these United 
States as free and independent states have full power 
to do all acts and things which independent states may 
of RIGHT do. 

Sumner said: “Under the Declaration of Indepen- 


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dence all sovereignty is subordinate to the rule of 
right. This is a government that stands on right, 
and claims no sovereignty inconsistent with right. 

John Q. Adams said: “The Declaration of Inde¬ 
pendence acknowledges the rule of right paramount to 
the power of independent states itself, and virtually 
disclaims all power to do wrong.” 

In the words of the immortal Lincoln, “We have 
a right to do what we please in this country ONLY 
when we please to do what is RIGHT.” 

In the Louisiana lottery case the United States 
Supreme Court said: “NO LEGISLATURE CAN BAR¬ 
GAIN AWAY THE PUBLIC HEALTH OR THE 
PUBLIC MORALS: THE PEOPLE THEMSELVES 
CANNOT DO IT MUCH LESS THEIR SERVANTS.” 

RIGHT, is to be adjudged, under the Declaration 
of Independence, in accordance with the rules and 
precepts of the Bible, the judicially acknowledged 
Word of God. 

The inscription on the old Liberty Bell was taken 
from the 16’ verse of the 25” chapter of Leviticus. 
Very fitting indeed. That verse reads in part as fol¬ 
lows: “Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto 

all the inhabitants thereof. It shall be a jubilee unto 
you.” 

When the old Liberty Bell rang out our liberty 
and independence, surely there was a jubilee in all the 
thirteen original states. Cannons boomed on hilltop 
and in valley, and when night came on the heavens 
were lit up with bonfires as numerous as the sight see¬ 
ing stars. 

THE BIBLE IS JUST AS NECESSARY FOR THE 
RETENTION OF THIS REPUBLIC AS IT WAS FOR 

ITS CREATION. 

“The general diffusion of the Bible is the most 
effectual way to civilize and humanize mankind; to 
purify and exalt the general system of public morals; 


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25 


to give efficacy to the just precepts of international and 
municipal law; to enforce the observance of prudence, 
temperance, justice and fortitude; and to improve all 
the relations of social and domestic life.”—Chancellor 
Kent. 

“If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible 
our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but 
if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and 
authority no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe 
may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in obscurity.” 

—W ebster. 

“The whole hope of human progress is suspended 
on the ever growing influence of the Bible.” 

—\V. H. Seward. 

“Men cannot be well educated without the Bible. 
It ought, therefore, to hold the chief place in every 
seat of learning throughout Christendom; and I do not 
know of a higher service that could be rendered to this 
Republic than the bringing about this desirable result.” 

—E. Nott 

“If anything I have ever said or written deserves 
the feeblest encomium of my fellow countrymen I 
have no hesitation in declaring, that for their partiality 
I am indebted, solely indebted to the daily and atten¬ 
tive perusal of the Sacred Scriptures the source of all 
true poetry and eloquence as well as all good and all 
comfort.” —Webster 

“Childhood is the basis of the future, and I believe 
in religious instruction for American children. The 
future of the nation cannot be trusted to the children 
unless their education includes their spiritual develop¬ 
ment. The world never before was in such need of 
right morals, right relations among men and nations, 
right spirit for meeting unparalleled conditions and 
sound religion in personal, social and public life.” 

—President Harding 

We have been drifting away from Bible reading 
and teaching, a great proportion of the people resort¬ 
ing to exploded theories temporarily resurrected under 
new names, until to day, we have arrived at the danger 


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point. In the business world the Golden Rule has 
been supplanted by the Rule of Gold. In an ancient 
story we are told that Midas’ touch turned every thing 
to gold, but we to day a stranger thing behold, men 
turn to any thing when touched with gold. 

Too many people have respect for the American 
Eagle only when it is on a gold dollar, and that dollar 
is in their possession. 

Spurgeon in one of his sermons said: “The 
Golden Rule got out of the church where it was fres¬ 
coed on the walls and wandered down to the Stock 
Exchange where it made a great disturbance and was 
quickly hustled out of the door.” 

In the eighth chapter of Deut. 3rd verse we read: 

“Man doth not live by bread alone, but by 
every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of 
the Lord doth man live.” 

Let us imagine there never was any such book as 
the Bible. This means the destruction of at least five 
hundred million Bibles in existence. Gather up all the 
books that were inspired by the Bible, pile them to¬ 
gether, mountain high, set them on fire and burn them 
to ashes. 

Give the names, if you will, of those of the animal 
kingdom and their origin; the fishes of the sea, and the 
birds of the air. From whence did man come? and 
whither is he going? Woman! Look upon her as a 
slave—To the Bible alone do women owe their liberty. 
What is meant by soul and spirit? What is meant by 
God, Jehovah, Creator? Flow did the universe come 
into existence? 

Our knowledge of Jesus, the Christ, his works, 
teachings, life, his mission on earth, and manner and 
purpose of his death and resurrection, blot it all from 
our memories, and all the benefits we have derived 
from His visitation on this earth. 

What is the true standard of right and wrong? 
What is right and wrong? 


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27 


What is meant by the “Golden Rule”? 

Destroy all the tomb stones, monuments and 
mausoleums in all the Christian burying grounds—yes, 
wipe out all the cemetaries of the Christianized nations. 
Cease the tolling of the Church bells and the sweet 
music of the church chimes—yes, destroy all the Christ¬ 
ian Churches, close up and destroy all hospitals, chari¬ 
table institutions and Red Cross Societies. Take from 
the walls the marvelous paintings that were inspired by 
the Bible and burn them to ashes. Destroy all our 
schools and colleges and the school books used therein. 
Wipe out the Sabbath, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas, 
Easter and the Fourth of July, and the joy and glad¬ 
ness they bring. Erase from our memory all religious 
songs—“Rock of Ages ’, ‘‘The Creation,” “Jerusalem,” 
and the countless other inspiring songs. 

Erase from the statute books all laws upon which 
civilization is founded. 

Without the Bible there never would have been a 
Columbus to discover America; a Fulton with his 
steam boat; a Morse with his telegraph; a Bell with his 
telegraph; an Edison with his electric railway and tele¬ 
phone; a Wright Brothers with their airplane; and a 
Marconi with his radio. Eliminate from your mind 
these agencies in the world of commerce. 

Without the Bible there never would have been a 
Shakespeare, a Gladstone, a Webster, a Spurgeon, a 
William Penn, a Benjamin Franklin, a John Hancock, a 
Washington, a Lincoln, a Garfield, a McKinley, a John 
Milton, a Sir Isaac Newton, a Wendell Phillips, a Wil¬ 
liam Lloyd Garrison, a Beecher, a Talmage, a John 
Wesley, a Martin Luther, a John Calvin, a John Bun- 
yan, or any other of the great intellectual and religious 
lights of the Christian nations. There never would 
have been a Jenny Lynn, a Florence Nightingale, a 
Clara Barton, a Harriet Beecher Stowe, a Anna Shaw, 
a Susan B. Anthony, a Queen Victoria or the un¬ 
crowned Queen, Frances E. Willard. 

Without the Bible there never would have been an 
American Republic with its world renowned Declara- 


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tion of Independence and Constitution—its Indepen¬ 
dence Hall, Liberty Bell, Stars and Stripes, and songs 
of freedom. 

I am writing in the English language. Without 
the Bible there never would have been any such lan¬ 
guage. And where we would have been, and under 
what environment of existence, if existing at all, God 
only knows. 

Without the Bible this would be a bleak and 
desert world, with humans groping about in the dark¬ 
ness as black as the darkest night. 

Have I not shown that: “Man doth not live by 
bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of 
the mouth of the Lord doth man live.” 

The reason we have so much crime, most of which 
is committed by young men, is, because the children of 
the masses are being allowed to mature into manhood 
and womanhood in a state of mere existence—living 
on bread only. 

Every child that is deprived of the knowledge of 
the oracles of God as recorded in the Bible is robbed 
of real life. 

Supposing, upon completion of the Bible it had 
been secreted and for eighteen hundred years remained 
hidden, when at the end of that period its whereabouts 
was discovered. 

Its discovery and disclosure of its contents would 
startle the world as it never has been startled. 

It would be represented as a book beyond the 
ability of any man or any group of men to produce. 

It would receive the credit due it for its real worth 
to the human race. 

People, generally, would hunger and thirst for 
its contents. 

Its presence with us, translated into the different 
languages of the civilized world, has been so long that 
it has come to occupy a common-place status among 
the masses. 

Only a small proportion of the people read it, and 



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29 


only now and then is there one who gets a vision of its 
depth of thought and meaning. 

ONLY FIVE OUT OF A HUNDRED OF OUR 
YOUNG MEN BELONG TO CHURCH; AND ONLY 
FIFTEEN OUT OF A HUNDRED ATTEND 
CHURCH. THIS LEAVES EIGHTY OUT OF 
EVERY HUNDRED WHO DO NOT ATTEND ANY 
RELIGIOUS SERVICE OR SUNDAY SCHOOL. IT 
HAS BEEN FOUND UPON INVESTIGATION THAT 
THERE ARE TWENTY-SEVEN MILLION YOUTHS 
IN AMERICA UNDER TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF 
AGE WHO DO NOT READ THE BIBLE, OR AT¬ 
TEND ANY PLACE OF WORSHIP WHERE THEY 
MAY HEAR IT READ. 

If it is as the President says, that the future can¬ 
not be trusted to our children unless their education 
includes their spiritual development, and eighty per 
cent of our youths are growing up to maturity without 
any knowledge of the Bible then what of the nation? 

We cannot force the children of the nation to at¬ 
tend church or Sunday School. There is, therefore, 
only one way by which we can get the teachings of the 
Bible to them and that is through the public schools. 

The safety of the nation makes it imperative on 
our part to see that the Bible is read daily in the Public 
Schools of every State in the Union. This is the only 
avenue through which we can possibly give the child¬ 
ren of the nation that spiritual development necessary 
for our safety as a nation. 

There can be no legitimate excuse for our not do¬ 
ing this, and to neglect it is moral treason. 

We hear some objections offered against it but 
not one of them is worthy of being mentioned, let alone 
being answered. 

The Bible being the only safe anchor for this re¬ 
public and the Public Schools being the only means we 
have of making sure of getting it and its teachings to the 
rising generation, opposition to it of any sort, and from 
whatever source is disloyalty to our Country, if not by 
intent, it is surely so in effect. 


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The whole history of man proves that the Mind 
that gave us the standard of right and wrong as it is 
written in the Bible is a Mind more than human—a 
Mind of unerring wisdom—a Mind that reigns over 
the universe, including man and nations. 

It has proven itself to be the soverign will of One 
in Supreme Authority over the affairs of men and of 
nations. 

The children of Isreal in their first flight from 
Egypt to Palestine, and the Jewish nations of Judah 
and Israel and their rulers from Saul down to the last 
of their kingdoms, whenever they violated this stand¬ 
ard, in wrong doing, suffered for it, and their trans¬ 
gression against it was of such frequency and flagrancy 
that they were finally driven from their home land, 
becoming wanderers over the earth; and from that day 
to this no nation has been able to escape punishment 
of some sort for policies pursued that are condemned as 
being wrong in principle, under this standard. 

The Constitution of the United States was signed 
September 17, 1 787 by all the deputies excepting 
Edmund Randolph and George Mason of Virginia, and 
Eldridge Gerry, of Massachusetts, they refusing to sign 
for the reason that it sanctioned slavery. Mr. Mason in 
speaking in condemnation of slavery said: “As a nation 
cannot be rewarded or punished in the other world they 
must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and 
effects, Providence punishes national sins by national 
calamities.” Never was a more truthful prophecy ut¬ 
tered by Elijah the prophet. 

Seventy-four years after its utterance the war 
between the North and South began on the Slavery 
question and while that war ended over half a century 
ago, we are still suffering from it. 

Horace Greely said; “Perhaps the very darkest 
days that the Republic ever saw were the ten days 
which just preceded the 4th of July, 1863.” 

U. S. Senator Harlan of Iowa presented in the 
Senate the following resolution: “Resolved, That, de¬ 
voutly recognizing the supreme authority and just 


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31 


government of Almighty God in the affairs of men and 
nations, and sincerely believing that no people, how¬ 
ever great in number and resources, or however strong 
in the justice of their cause, can prosper without His 
favor, and at the same time deploring the national of¬ 
fences which provoked His rightious judgement, yet 
encouraged in this day of trouble, by the assurance of 
His Word, to seek Him for succor according to His 
appointed way, through Jesus Christ, the Senate of the 
United States do hereby request the President of the 
United States by his proclamation to designate and set 
apart a day for national prayer and humiliation, re¬ 
questing all the people of the land to suspend their 
secular pursuits and unite in keeping the day in solemn 
communion with the Lord of Hosts, supplicating Him 
to enlighten the counsels and direct the policy of the 
rulers of the nation, and to support the soldiers, sailors 
and marines, and whole people in the firm discharge 
of duty, until the existing rebellion shall be overthrown 
and the blessing of peace restored to our bleeding coun¬ 
try. 

The next day this resolution passed the Senate 
without a dissenting vote. On the 30th of March 
Lincoln proclaimed a prayer and fast day for the 30th 
of April following, a part of which reads as follows; 
“It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the of¬ 
fended power, to confess our national sins and pray 
for clemency and forgiveness. 

Now, therefore, in compliance with the request, 
and fully concurring in the views of the Senate, I do by 
this proclamation designate and set apart Thursday, 
April 30th, 1863, as a day of national humiliation, 
fasting and prayer. All this being done in sincerity 
and truth, let us then rest humbly in the hope author¬ 
ized by the divine teachings that the united cry of the 
nation will be heard on high and answered with bles¬ 
sings no less than the pardon of our national sins and 
the restoration of our now divided and suffering coun¬ 
try to its former happy condition of unity and peace.” 

In this act we imitated to perfection the Isrealites 


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when they were in trouble through their transgressions. 

It is an acknowledgment, also, of what we have 
undertaken herein to make plain, the authority of God 
over human government. 

While our Federal Constitution is one of the most 
important documents of its kind, ever penned by mor¬ 
tal man, and was, as originally constructed, yet, its 
framers did not have a vision of the full meaning of the 
Biblical standard of right and wrong, for, if they had, 
they never would have given sanction to slavery by 
any of its provisions. 

Charles Sumner, demonstrated the fact that he 
had the vision in opposing the thirteenth amendment 
to the Constitution on the floor of the United States 
Senate, on the ground that slavery was wrong under 
this standard, and under the principles of the Declara¬ 
tion of Independence, and if wrong, it needed only an 
act of Congress punishing the wrong-doer. 

In the ante-bellum days a great proportion of the 
people were as blind to the wrong of slavery as were the 
children of Isreal to their duty to the One who deliv¬ 
ered them from the bondage of Egypt. 

For denouncing the “Dred Scott Decision” Lin¬ 
coln was styled ‘‘A legal nonentity,” “an anarchist;” 

‘ a judicial lunatic;” “a four-flusher;” ‘‘an inciter of 
disrepect for our courts;” ‘‘a panderer of mob spirit;” 

a buffoon, with his ear to the ground, to catch the 
acclaim of public sentiment.” 

Under the present state of enlightenment the 
Dred Scott Decision” is universally condemned as 
a miscarriage of justice and a misconstruction of the 
Constitution. 

The above recital of history proves to us that to 
insure our escape from disaster as a nation, we, as a 

people, must know the Bible and take heed to its pre¬ 
cepts. 

At this point we feel we have proven that God 
has established certain laws and ordinances for the or¬ 
ganization of Governments and their administration 
and that this Republic was founded upon principles 


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33 


embracing the edicts of the Almighty, and that there¬ 
fore, it becomes mandative for us to make the Bible one 
of our courses of study that we may know the law, and 
thereby be capable of declaring it in human statutes. 

No person who is not a student of the Bible has 
any right to seek a place in the legislative halls, or on 
the bench of the judiciary, for his ignorance of true law 
would render such an one utterly ineligible to fill either 
one of these exalted positions in the mechanism of 
government. 

In Joshua 1-8 we read, “This book of the law 
shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shall medi¬ 
tate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe 
to do according to that is written therein; for then 
thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and thou shalt 
have good success.” 

“A man who understands nothing of agricul¬ 
ture, of trade, of human nature, of past history, of the 
principles of law, cannot pretend to be more than a 
mere empiric in political legislation.” 

—F. W. Robertson. 

“Responsibility educates, and politics is but an¬ 
other name for God’s way of teaching the masses 
ethics, under the responsibility of great present inter¬ 
ests.”—Wendell Phillips. 

“I know not where to look for any single work 
which is so full of the great principles of political 
wisdom, as the laws of Moses and the history of the 
Kings of Isreal and Judah.”—G. Spring. 

Blackstone, in his Commentaries says; “In general 
all mankind will agree, that government should be 
reposed in such persons in whom those qualities are 
most likely to be found, the perfection of which are 
among the attributes of Him who is emphatically styled 
the Supreme Being; the three grand requisites I mean, 
of wisdom, of goodness, and of power; of wisdom to 
discern the real interest of the community; goodness 
to endeavor always to pursue that real interest; and 
strength or power to carry this knowledge and inten¬ 
tion into action. These are the natural foundations 


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of sovereignty, and these are the requisites that ought 
to be found in every well constituted frame of govern¬ 
ment.” 

It will have to be admitted, that the qualities of 
which Blackstone speaks can only be obtained by a 
research of the Holy Scriptures. 

We wish to emphasize the fact, that ON 

MORAL QUESTIONS WE CANNOT MAKE 
LAW, WE CAN ONLY ASCERTAIN WHAT IS 

LAW; And there are very few legislative enactments 
in which the question of morals is not involved, even 
such measures as the thread bare tariff question can¬ 
not be considered an exception. 

Lord Robert Cecil has recently begun, in Eng¬ 
land, a national movement to establish commerce 
and industry on Christian principles. Lord Cecil has 
evidently gotten the vision as to the true meaning of 
human government. 

A government to be recognized as such by the 
Almighty must not only carry out those principles in 
its internal affairs but in its international relations as 
well. God and He alone is the Author and Giver of 
law. 

It is not only necessary, therefore, to have the 
Bible in the public schools for our spiritual develop¬ 
ment, but for intellectual training in the science of gov¬ 
ernment. The proper understanding of the object and 
purpose of government cannot be acquired from any 
other source. 

The science of governmental life, what is it? 

The discovery of God’s place in government. 
God is a standing candidate in government that He 
may be continually in complete control. It is there¬ 
fore our duty, at all times, to VOTE FOR GOD. 

This may be done by casting our ballots for men 
to fill the offices of the government who stand for 
God. We have been taught to pray to God. The 
great lesson yet to be learned is to vote for God that 
prayer may be answered. 

“What is our organized standard in this country? 


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35 


God. He is the source of all law, the basis of all gov¬ 
ernment, and the moral standard by which must be 
determined the constitutionality of all human law and 
constitutions.’’ 

L. D. Watson, L. L. D. of Law School of Victoria 
University: 

THE SCIENCE OF INDIVIE)UAL LIFE, is a 

subject most important to every individual, and yet it 
is made a study by a small proportion of the masses. 
We need to be awakened as was Rahab, the harlot of 
Jerico. When she learned how the Lord had dried up 
the Red Sea for the Jews when they came out of Egypt, 
she was made to see that God is not only God in 
heaven but in the earth beneath as is shown in Joshua 
second chapter, 1 1th verse. It seems the most of us 
look upon God as being away from us at a great dis¬ 
tance—so much so we seem to forget Him and our ob¬ 
ligations of Him. Like Rahab, we need to be awak¬ 
ened to the fact, that He is ever present with us as our 
everlasting King, with His selfmade infallible and im¬ 
mutable laws for our observance. The experience of 
all mankind prove that if His laws are obeyed the in¬ 
evitable reward will be long life, genuine happiness, 
and contentment; while on the other hand to disobey 
any of His laws just as inevitably brings suffering, both 
mental and physical. His laws concerning the conduct 
of the individual are as immutible as all other of his 
decrees. A penalty is sure and certain to follow the 
violation of any of his laws, and unlike the courts of 
government of man sentence is never suspended. Re¬ 
pentance is rewarded by forgiveness, but that does not 
enable the transgressor to escape the entire penalty. 
Quoting the Rev. Dr. R. P. Shaw, “A track is built for 
the operating of a steam engine. As long as the en¬ 
gine keeps the track all is well, but let it jump the track 
and destruction of life or property or both follows. 
So it is with us humans. We have a track, as it were, 
on which to travel, laid by the Almighty. As long 
as we pursue our vocations in life without straying from 
the track our journey will be gratifying and free from 



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reproach of conscience; let us wander from this track 
and as in the case of the steam engine, moral injury 
will be the inevitable result.” Man’s duty to God and 
to himself is revealed in the Book of Books. As to 
the Bible being the Word of God, I declare without 
fear of successful contradiction, that it never fails to 
prove itself to be to all those who, with unbiased minds, 
make it one of their course of study in the journey of 
life. 

God being the author of the Bible, it must be ad¬ 
mitted that it is the only source of information upon 
which man can rely for his guidance in life. By going 
to the Bible and studying it day by day in connection 
with the laws of nature we are going daily to the Father 
for instruction. All other books are human produc¬ 
tions—human thoughts, ideas, and opinions, and the 
vision with the best of us is like seeing through a 
smoked glass. The Bible is His Book, and therefore 
infallible. ‘‘The shifting systems of false religions are 
continually changing their places; but the gospel of 
Christ is the same forever. While other false lights are 
extinguished, this true light ever shineth.” T. L. Cuy- 
ler. 

THE BIBLE IS THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD. 
THE BIBLE CONTAINS THE WISDOM OF THE 

WORLD. 

It is therefore, the thing needful to be studied. If 
all those who are chasing after new cults, would give 
the time to the study of the Bible that they give to 
these imaginations of imperfect man the entire civilized 
world would be transformed to a degree unparalleled 
in the history of man. 

Christ is the Truth as to education. 

He is the Truth as to Psychology and every 
disiplinary study. 

He is the Truth as to history, literature, and art. 

He is the Truth as to law, government, society 
and politics. 


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CHRIST IS THE TRUTH. 

In part or whole the Bible has been translated in¬ 
to 770 languages and dialects. 

In the past decade the Bible has appeared in a 
new language on an average every six weeks. 

During the past century 550,000,000 copies of 
the Bible have been prepared by the Bible Society. 
It is the world’s “best seller.’’ 

A religious education should be the heritage of 
every child. Spiritual illiteracy is the greatest peril of 
organized society.’’ 

Our children cannot know good literature with¬ 
out knowing the Bible. Shakespeare alludes to the 
Bible 700 times. Tennyson 400 times. 

The Sermon on the Mount is called by critics, 
“The Literary Masterpiece.” 

The parables of Christ are known as the “The 
perfect stories.” 

The poetry of David and Solomon is unequalled. 

The eleventh chapter of Hebrews is called “The 
Westminster Abbey of the Bible.” 

British sailors of today say the 27th chapter of 
Acts contains more than twenty nautical allusions, 
which are still correct according to present day sea¬ 
man’s lore. 

The Bible is the greatest Hero Book. 

The Israelites began their career in Palestine un¬ 
der a form of government recognizing the immediate 
Sovereignty of God—a Theocracy. After a time they 
became dissatisfied with God’s plan of governing, and, 
no doubt, desiring to copy after pagan governments, 
they set up a cry for an earthly king to judge them. 

God was displeased with this for we read, in 1st 
Samuel, 8th chapter, 7th verse, as follows: “And the 
Lord said unto Samuel, ‘Hearken unto the voice of the 
people in all that they say unto thee; for they have not 
rejected thee but they have rejected me, that I should 
not reign over them.’ 

God, nevertheless, yielded to their wishes, with 


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the inevitable result. In just three hundred and sixty 
years—from Saul to Hosea—the Jews became ex¬ 
tinct as a nation, were cast out to live under bondage 
and finally made wanderers over the face of the earth. 

God led them into the promised land through 
the red sea, the unrepentant and blood thirsty Pharaoh 
pursuing to his destruction. God led our forefathers 
across the ocean to the “New heaven and new earth. 

Later, King George the 3rd pursued them with 
the same lack of judgment and humane feeling as was 
shown in Pharaoh’s attitude toward the Israelites. 

When the Declaration of Independence was 
adopted by Congress and we were made a free and in¬ 
dependent nation, the Bible was our only law book. 
We were nearer a Theocracy than any nation has been 
since Israel entered the land of milk and honey. 

Reason as we may, there is only one way out of 
escaping the conflict of war and establishing perma¬ 
nent peace throughout the world, and giving every man 
his due in all the walks of life, and that is in accepting 
the sovereignty of God in government. 

The Great Creator, in bringing this universe into 
being. He established certain laws for man in his pri¬ 
vate and political life which are immutable. Man liv¬ 
ing in violation of them has been and ever will be a 
failure. 

The experience of every individual proves this 
from Adam down to the present day. 

When man awakens to this fact and puts himself 
in harmony with those laws the strifes of man and 
nations now existing will be settled and settled right. 

But this volume would not seem complete did 
we not follow up the discussion with a definition of 
“Americanism.” 

This subject has been much discussed of late, and 
what the American people should be made to know is 

AMERICANISM IN ITS TRUE LIGHT. 

No wonder Columbus, when he saw our conti- 


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39 


nent for the first time, imagined that he was approach¬ 
ing the noblest and most perfect place on earth, the 
original abode of our first parents, the primitive seat 
of human innocence and bliss—the Garden of Eden. 
I believe that Columbus was a man of Providence in 
his discovery of America, and that the Western Hem¬ 
isphere was providentially located and arranged. When 
God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gath¬ 
ered together unto one place and let the dry land ap¬ 
pear,” I believe He located our land and so shaped it 
as to make it best to serve His purpose. To prove this, 
I will only speak of the effect its location and physical 
structure had in making the first settlement upon it, 
although there are many scientific facts which could 
be brought to my aid. The Western Coast of our Hem¬ 
isphere is barricaded by a long range of mountains. 
There is scarcely a place where the land is not at least 
two hundred feet above the level of the sea. Rocks 
and trees, gulfs and high precipices intercept the trav¬ 
eler. The few rivers which flow into the Pacific are 
small and unnavigable. All the surroundings, in fact, 
are inadequate for the purposes of first settlement of a 
continent consisting of a vast wilderness. The Eastern 
Coast consists principally of low lands in a tillable 
state. Navigable and majestic rivers flow into the At¬ 
lantic and fine harbors are plentiful. The Western 
Coast is six thousand miles from India, and the East¬ 
ern, three thousand miles, or half the distance, from 
Europe. 7 India was inhabited by infidels and idolaters 
and Europe by Christians. God did not want this 
country settled by idolaters, so placed America six 
thousand miles from them, to make it difficult for 
them to get here, and He erected the Rocky Moun¬ 
tains along the Western Coast so that if they did reach 
our shores, it would be impossible for them to effect a 
settlement. Europe being inhabited by Christians, 
God wanted this country settled by the Europeans, so 
he placed America only three thousand miles from 
them, that they might be able to get here, and so con¬ 
structed our Eastern Coast as to make it not only ap- 


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proachable, but attractive to them as they sailed into 
its peaceful harbors and up its princely rivers, and 
strange to say while He made the soil of the eastern 
coast rich and fertile, He covered the surface of the 
earth in the immediate interior, with a still richer soil, 
thus creating an inducement for our settlers to move 
inward and onward across the prairies to the Queen of 
the Waters and capture “the land of the free and home 
of the brave,” for Himself and His cause. 

As has been said, “The United States of America 
is the last stand of the human race in the struggle to 
survive. We cannot go westward any more. We 
have reached the ocean.” Nature has done more for 
America than it has for any other nation on the face 
of the globe. Nature is really at her best in America. 
Every variety of nature’s beauties may be seen in per¬ 
fection here. Silvery water in all its uses, sleeping in 
lakes, bubbling in springs, dancing in rivulets, marching 
in broad and expansive rivers and roaring mighty cat¬ 
aracts. And then landscapes stretch out in every form 
and shape known to the freaks of nature—sleeping 
planes and valleys, rustling prairies, echoing ravines, 
silent woodlands, rolling hills and white-capped moun¬ 
tains. Do you want to see the beauties of nature in 
far away Italy, Scotland, Ireland or some other of the 
foreign countries? Then travel over America. She 
has them all, in all their grandeur and sublimity. She 
sweeps and rolls and tumbles from beds on the level 
of the sea to peaks above the clouds. And then her 
variety of climate. Do you want to live where the 
robin sings all the year around, or where there is aut¬ 
umn, winter, spring and summer? If you desire the 
former climate you have but to turn your face toward 
the Golden Gates of California. If you prefer the lat¬ 
ter climate the old Keystone State will afford you your 
heart’s desire. And then go where you will on God’s 
earth and you will not see the heavens look grander, 
the stars twinkle and sparkle brighter, the sky look 
more radiantly blue and the sun set more majestical¬ 
ly; and you will not see more lovely sunshine and 



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41 


showers, or grander displays of heaven’s fireworks and 
artilleries in the clouds—God has given America about 
all there is in Nature. Her breezes are gentle zephyrs 
from heaven. Her streams and rivulets melted silver; 
her mountains, wings of angels of love and affection 
and her soil, grains of life giving power, sending forth 
Nature’s carpets of silken brussels, plants and flowers, 
and the giant oaks of the forest. And then we have 
but to work our way underneath the soil and bring 
forth the warmth giving coal, the indispensable iron 
ore, and shining silver, the glittering gold and spark¬ 
ling diamonds. Who can go out among the hills and 
valleys of America and listen to the songs of the birds, 
the chirping of the chip-munks, the music of the streams 
and rivulets, and breathe in the sweet incense of Nat¬ 
ure’s flowers, and behold the sunshine and the blue 
sky behind the passing silver lined cloud, and say 
“There is no God?’’ 

The events of history plainly indicate that Amer¬ 
ica is the nation chosen by Providence to bring about 
permanent world-wide peace which is absolutely neces¬ 
sary for the preservation of the Caucasian race. 

In the words of Napoleon “War is the business of 
barbarians.” 

“The practices of war are so hateful to God, that 
were not His mercies infinite, it were in vain for those 
of this profession to hope for any portion of them.”— 
Sir W. Raleigh. 

“There never was a good war or a bad peace.”— 
Franklin. 

“War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward 
redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnify¬ 
ing losses.”—Jefferson. 

“The next dreadful thing to a battle lost, is a bat¬ 
tle won.”—Wellington. 

Said Tertullion, “In disarming Peter, Christ dis¬ 
armed every soldier.” 

This old world of ours is a graveyard of dead re¬ 
publics and monarchies because this command of the 
Man of Galilee has not been obeyed. A great pro- 


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portion of our wars have been precipitated through 
some inconsequential act, and a great majority of them 
could have been avoided, through the guidance of wise 
statesmanship. 

In 1859 Lyman A. Cutler an American, lived on 
San Juan Island. Charles J. Griffin, representative of 
the Hudson Bay Company, resided on the island also, 
and was the owner of a sow ready for the butcher s 
knife. This pig broke into Cutler s potato patch, 
whereupon, he rushed into the house, seized his gun 
and shot the pig. He called on Griffin and informed 
him of what he had done, offering to pay for the pig. 
Griffin demanded one hundred dollars. Cutler re¬ 
fused to pay that amount. Griffin threatened to send 
to Vancouver Island for a gun boat to have Cutler ar¬ 
rested and carried away for trial in a British Court. 
Cutler replied that he was on American soil, and if 
brought to trial it must be in an American Court. 

There were settlers on the island, some claiming 
allegiance to the American flag and some to the Brit¬ 
ish flag. 

Federal officers on the northwest coast were wish¬ 
ing that a war might be forced with Great Britain in 
the hope that by this means the then jarring sections of 
our country would unite in a foreign war, and so avert 
the civil strife, which they saw approaching. 

The Americans asked for troops to protect their 
interests. Captain Pickett, afterwards, Gen. Geo. E. 
Pickett in the Confederate Army, was sent to the island 
from Fort Steilacoom with sixty-eight men. 

On the same day that the troops landed, a British 
war ship arrive^ bringing a magistrate to punish Cutler, 
and prevent the further assertion of American claims. 
Afterwards three British war vessels appeared in front 
of Pickett’s camp. The British commander threatened 
to land his overwhelming numbers and force the Ameri¬ 
cans off the island. Pickett declared he would resist 
as long as he had a man left. He called for reinforce¬ 
ments and about five hundred men were sent him from 
Puget Sound, under Col. Casey. The excitement on 


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43 


the island became intense, but the trouble was finally 
settled through arbitration by Emporer William of Ger¬ 
many in favor of the United States, but not until 1872. 

So, these two nations came within an ace of going 
to war with each other, and all over the shooting of a 
pig. 

Admiral Ralph Semmes, who commanded the 
Privateer, related the following incident in the hearing 
of one Rev. Mr. Conway: “After the election of 
Lincoln, twelve of the leading men of the South, rep¬ 
resenting six states, assembled in the St. Charles 
Hotel, New Orleans, and spent the whole evening dis¬ 
cussing the question as to what the South ought to do 
under the circumstances. For an hour and a half 
eleven of the statesmen were adverse to war—only 
one in favor of it. But after partaking freely of ardent 
spirits, and while under its influence, they were unani¬ 
mously in favor of war,” and it was the opinion of the 
Admiral that if they had kept sober that night the ter¬ 
rible war which cost the North and South so many mil¬ 
lions of dollars, and so many precious lives, and evil 
influences which we still have with us, would never 
have occurred. 

The New York Independent attributes the fol¬ 
lowing remarks to Gen. D. E. Sickles: “The war of 
the rebellion was really a whiskey war. Yes, whiskey 
caused the rebellion. I was in Congress preceding the 
war. It was whiskey in the morning—the morning 
cocktail—a Congress of whiskey drinkers. Then 
whiskey all day. Whiskey and gambling all night. 
Drinks before Congress opened its morning session, 
drinks before it adjourned. Scarcely a committee room 
without its demijohn of whiskey, and the clinking of 
glasses could be heard in the capital corridors. The 
fights, the angry speeches were whiskey; the atmos- 
ph ere was redolent with whiskey; nervous excitement 
seeking relief in whiskey, and whiskey added to ner¬ 
vous excitement. Yes, the rebellion was launched in 
whiskey. If the French assembly were to drink some 
morning, one-half the whiskey consumed in any one 


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day by that Congress, France would declare war 
against Germany in twenty minutes.” 

Horace Greely said: “Had it not been for the 
liquor traffic there never would have been a civil 
war.” 

This may be true but the fact remains that what¬ 
ever may have blinded the mental vision of the con¬ 
trolling faction of the leader-ship of the South the 
events of history prove that the cause of secession had 
no merits or possible chance of success. 

Hon. Henry W. Grady, the noted newspaper edi¬ 
tor, of Atlanta, Georgia, in a most thrilling and patri¬ 
otic speech in New York City on “The New South,” 
said: “We understand that when Lincoln signed the 
Emancipation Proclamation, your victory was as¬ 
sured; for he then committed you to the cause of human 
liberty, against which the arms of man cannot pre¬ 
vail; while those of our statesmen who trusted to make 
Slavery the corner stone of the Confederacy doomed 
us to defeat as far as they could, committing us to a 
cause that reason could not defend or the sword main¬ 
tain in the sight of advancing civilization.” 

Historians quote Lee, the great military leader of 
the South, as saying that he felt from the start that he 
was fighting for a lost cause. True and undimmed 
statesmanship could not have avoided seeing that such 
a revolutionary movement as was the Southern Con¬ 
federacy would result in a colossal failure. 

The South under the system of Slavery could not 
compete in the business world with the North where 
universal freedom existed. Slavery was a system re¬ 
pugnant to the Declaration of Independence. Lincoln 
truthfully said the Country could not exist half free 
and half slave. Therefore, there should have been 
men of sufficient wisdom and good judgment in the 
North and South to have gotten together and agreed 
upon some such plan for settlement as was proposed by 
Lincoln, viz: Paying the slave holders four hundred 
dollars for every slave owned by them. The masses of 
the people in both the North and the South would have 


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45 


hailed such a settlement with great joy and gladness, 
and we of today are able to realize the great loss suf¬ 
fered by our country for having resorted to the sword 
instead of concilitory measures for settlement. 

The Southland would today have been the garden 
of the world, her people among the happiest and most 
contented, and her cities, parlors of beauty. 

Chauncy M. Depew, in “Leaves from My Auto¬ 
biography” published in March number of Scribner’s 
Magazine, 1922, disclosed a very remarkable incident. 
When in London at the time of the Spanish-American 
War he says he called on Lord Rothchild at his invita¬ 
tion, and reveals what took place at that conference as 
follows: “He, Rothchild, said to me”: “We have 

been for a long time the bankers of Spain. We feel the 
responsibility for their securities, which we have 
placed upon the market. The United States is so all- 
powerful in its resources and spirit that it can crush 
Spain. This we desire to avert. Spain, though weak 
and poor compared to the United States, has neverthe¬ 
less the proudest people in the world, and it is a ques¬ 
tion of Spanish pride we have to deal with.” 

In answering him, I said: “Lord Rothschild, it 
seems to me that if you had any proposition you should 
take it to Mr. John Hay, our accomplished minister.” 

“No,” he said, “then it would become a matter 
of diplomacy and publicity. Now the Spanish Gov¬ 
ernment is willing to comply with every demand the 
United States can make. The government is willing 
to grant absolute independence to Cuba, or what it 
would prefer, a self-governing colony, with relations 
like that of Canada to Great Britain. Spain is willing 
to give to the United States, Porto Rico and the Philip¬ 
pine Islands, but she must know beforehand if these 
terms will be accepted before making the offer, be¬ 
cause if an offer so great as this and involving such a 
loss of territory and prestige should be rejected by the 
United States there would be a revolution in Spain 
which might overthrow not only the government but 
the monarchy. What would be regarded as an insult 


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would be resented by every Spaniard to the bitter end. 
That is why I have asked you to come and wish you 
to submit this proposition to your president. Of course, 
I remain in a position, if there should be any publicity 
about it, to deny the whole thing.’ 

McKinley was exceedingly averse to war and be¬ 
lieved the difficulties could be satisfactorily settled by 
diplomacy and Mr. Depew furnishes us with positive 
proof that it could have been. We could have had 
Cuba given her freedom, and Porto Rico and the 
Philippine Islands ceded to us gratis, and without the 
loss of the life of a single American, and with very lit¬ 
tle expense. 

We could have accepted this proposition of Spain 
without forfeiting our honor as a nation, but we were 
led into war with that nation instead, at a cost of the 
lives of five thousand seven hundred and thirty 
eight of our soldier boys, and unnumbered mothers, 
wives and sweethearts and of a war debt of two hun¬ 
dred and seventy five million dollars and in the end 
getting from Spain just what they volunteered to con¬ 
cede to us without the shedding of blood, by paying in 
addition, however, the sum of seventy million dollars 
for the Philippine Islands. 

The great minds of the present day are begin¬ 
ning to see the truth relative to preparedness, viz: that 
preparation for war, instead of preventing war results 
in war. President Harding has so expressed himself. 

The following anecdote between father and son 
fairly illustrates the point. 

‘Papa, what is a peaceful navy?’ 

“ ‘A peaceful navy, my boy, is a navy that is 
large and powerful enough to keep peace,’ answered 
Smithers, Senior. 

‘How can it keep peace, papa?’ 

‘By intimidating or subduing other navies.’ 

‘Should the United States have a peaceful 

navy?’ 

‘Most certainly, Johnny.’ 

‘Should Great Britain have a peaceful navy?* 


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47 


“Smithers, Senior, hesitated. ‘Er-r, say, Johnny, 
don’t you want to go and play with your new aero¬ 
plane?’ 

‘No, papa. Should Great Britain have a peace¬ 
ful navy?’ 

‘Well—yes, I suppose so.’ 

‘Should every nation have a peaceful navy?’ 

‘Look, Johnny, those boys are having lots of 
fun over there. Run along and play with them.’ 

‘Guess I don’t want to go out now, papa. Should 
every nation have a peaceful navy.’ 

‘You’re not old enough to understand these 
things, my boy,’ said the elder philosopher. ‘Don’t 
bother me.’ 

‘Well, papa, if another navy should attack our 
navy and we should subdue it, wouldn’t that be keep¬ 
ing peace?’’ 

“ ‘Yes.* 

‘And if the other navy was larger and power- 
fuller and was to subdue ours wouldn’t that be keeping 
peace?’ 

“Mr. Smithers quite disapproved of encouraging 
inquisitiveness in children, so he sternly bade Johnny 
be silent. 

“The next day Johnny proudly announced to his 
father that he had kept peace with Jimmy Jones. ‘How 
was that, my son?’ asked the parent, scrutinizing a 
dark crescent under the youngster’s eye. 

‘Well,’ said Johnny, ‘I’m bigger and powerful- 
ler than him, so 1 tried to intimidate him first, but he 
hit me and then I just subdued him.’ 

We contend that military training as a part of 
the curriculum in our educational institutions is as 
much preparedness as is the building of battleships and 
much more injurious to the character building of the 
youth. 

Military training among our youths, is an educa¬ 
tion away from peace and for war. The youths of to¬ 
day will be our citizens of tomorrow. Military train¬ 
ing will suggest to them war and the nation with whom 


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we would be most likely to have war. This nation will 
reason that our preparation means war and with them. 
They will treat us as their enemy, looking for an ex¬ 
cuse to attack them; and the inevitable result would 
be war. 

Now, it is generally admitted that another war 
between first-class powers would involve the destruc¬ 
tion of civilization, if not of the human race. No per¬ 
son of sound mind can think of another great war as 
anything less than a final catastrophe. 

The United States navy has successfully operated 
a great battleship by radio, without a single man on 
board. Delicate electrical instruments governed the 
speed of the ship and fed fuel to the boilers and navi¬ 
gated the vessel as if human hands had been at the 
wheel. These gigantic death-dealers can be sent 
across the ocean by wireless to spread destruction and 
without the risk of a single life on board the preying 
ship. 

Will Irwin in his book entitled “The Next War” 
says: “Attacking nations will make no foolish warn¬ 
ing declarations of war. They will strike first and the 
striking will be terrible beyond description with gases, 
invisible rays and even with germs. The great cities 
will be totally destroyed, the great mass of men, women 
and children will be dead, even the land will be use¬ 
less, and the stench of a great festering will make dis¬ 
gusting the earth. After the recent war, the world 
goes about on crutches, staring with bleary eyes. After 
the next, it will have no limbs at all and it will be curs¬ 
ing blind.” 

Montesquieu said, “If Europe shall ever be 
ruined it will be by its warriors.” 

Lincoln said, that if the American Republic is ev¬ 
er destroyed it will be by suicide. 

It is plain to be seen that if the white race on this 
earth is destroyed it will be by suicide and not by the 
yellow race, as some have held. We have no reason to 
fear our destruction from that source. 

If the Caucasian race finally perish it will be by 


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their own hands. So our first duty is to educate our 
youths away from war instead of for war, to give them 
a heart culture such as will enable them to see that all 
mankind are brethren to be considered with equal 
kindness, and justice. Had Germany thus taught her 
school children for fifty years previous to the world 
war such a catastrophe as that would never have oc- 
cured. 

“Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that 
occupy the minds of your young men, and I will tell 
you what is to be the character of the next generation,” 
says Burke. 

“Children are God’s apostles, sent forth day by 
day to preach love and hope and peace,” says J. R. 
Lowell. 

They cannot do this and have hatred and the 
suggestion of war burned into their hearts by military 
training. But, says the militarist, our school children 
need physical exercise. To be sure they do, but they 
do not have to go into military training to get that. It 
has been proven that physical culture or athletic train¬ 
ing more uniformly developes the body than does mili¬ 
tary training. 

It was also discovered in the world war that our 
boys who had practiced physical culture, after thirty 
days drilling in the army, became as efficient as a 
soldier in battle as the best trained Prussian soldier. 
And there is a vast difference in the moral effect of 
these methods of physical development. One suggests 
the shedding of blood of our fellow man while the 
other leads the subject into a line of thought that gives 
him new life and hope for a successful future—such as 
the prolonging of life through the building up of a vig¬ 
orous constitution and putting the body in condition to 
sustain the mind in pursuing the civil duties of life. 

Let the people of the United States set the exam¬ 
ple of practicing the Golden Rule in their dealings 
with each other and with their neighbor nations and all 
will soon be peace and harmony in our midst and a 
period of prosperity and thrift will follow such as was 


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never known, and we will be hailed by every civilized 
nation as the ‘World’s Friend; and no people would 
think of raising their hands against us. This happy 
condition of our own country would do more to bring 
about world wide permanent peace than any other in¬ 
fluence. 

In our mad rush for defense and for a share of 
the wealth of the world we have not stopped to take 
into account that God still lives and deals with nations 
as well as with individuals. 

We are ready to admit that in the Governments 
of Judah and Israel God protected the people against 
their enemies and gave them prosperity when under 
the reign of a righteous King, but it would seem from 
our demeanor that we do not have the faith to believe 
that God would protect us in right doing as a nation as 
He did the Israelites nor do we show any fear of being 
punished by Him for wrong doing. We look upon 
Him as a God of four thousand years ago, and not of 
the present. I consider this the chief error into which 
we, as a people, have fallen. The history of nations 
makes clear that He is still with us to give protection 
and reward or punishment, just as we deserve. 

Says Chief Justice of the United States Supreme 
Court, John Jay, “God governs the world, and we 
have only to do our duty wisely and leave the issue to 
Him.” 

In Isaiah 2-4 we read the command of the Al¬ 
mighty, “The nations shall beat their swords into plow¬ 
shares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation 
shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they 
learn war any more.” 

“War racked and torn from sea to sea 

The old world bleeding lies; 

God called America to be 

The land where hatred dies. 

The sword has perished by the sword, 

New ways before her lie; 

God grant her strength to speak the word; 

‘A world where hate shall die.* ** 


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51 


The United States of America was made a nation 
by and through the Declaration of Independence, 
adopted by the people through their representatives in 
Congress. 

This Declaration declares that “All men are creat¬ 
ed equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with 
certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, 
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” 

There is a class of Americans whose idea of lib¬ 
erty may be summed up as follows: “There is no God 
but ourselves. There is no law but our own desires.” 

This is not the liberty given us by our Bill of 
Rights. Under this Document civil liberty may be de¬ 
fined as the enjoyment of our natural rights under the 
guaranty and protection of law. Some have the mis¬ 
taken idea that in our natural rights we are given a 
license to do as we please. Far from it. The duty of 
keeping our bodies in perfect order is imposed upon 
us that the life transmitted to us by the Almighty may 
be at all times at its best, and that we may give our 
offspring a birth free from any mental or physical 
weakness that might be inherited from us through our 
disobedience of those rights. In our conduct toward 
ourselves we are required to indulge in moderation in 
the things that are useful and totally obstain from the 
things that are harmful. In our relations to mankind 
we are bound to do unto others as we would like to be 
done by. 

In governmental affairs, no wrong of any sort can 
be legally sanctioned by any legislative enactment, 
Constitutional provision or judicial decision, or any 
other department of government. Any policy in gov¬ 
ernment that is wrong in principle is a usurpation of 
our authority as a people; for as we have said in adopt¬ 
ing the Declaration of Independence as our platform 
of principles we declared to the world that that which 
is morally wrong cannot be made legally right any 
where or any place in the Republic of the United 
States. This, I contend, is Americanism in its true 
light. 


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Twelve years after we became a nation our Feder¬ 
al Constitution was ratified. In its preamble we read, 
“We, the people of the United States, in order to form 
a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic 
tranquility, promote the general welfare, and secure the 
blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do 
ordain and establish this constitution for the United 
States of America.” 

The liberty referred to here is that defined and 
proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence and 
one of the purposes of the Constitution is to maintain 
and keep inviolate this liberty and its blessings. 

This, being a government of the people, by the 
people, and for the people true Americanism de¬ 
mands, 

First: That every citizen shall become a student 
in politics, that he may intelligently perform his politi¬ 
cal duty. 

Wendell Phillips spoke the truth when he said, 
“He who neglects his political duty is a public enemy.” 

Frances E. Willard, the uncrowned Queen, said: 
“Once I thought voting was altogether secular; now I 
perceive it to be an act of religion or irreligion ac¬ 
cording to the purpose of him who casts the ballot. 
Once I thought politics secular but now I perceive that 
the new theocracy must enter at its portals, and Christ 
must dwell in government or not, according to our 
political decisions.” 

The late Senator Ingalls of Kansas said: “In 
such a system as ours, where the people are the source 
and fountain of power, every man and woman ought to 
be a politician. If we have a bad government, none 
but ourselves are to blame.” 

Our government is as good as we make it or allow 
it to be made. But greatly to our discredit, it is, as 
Dr. Strong says: “Men are too busy to attend to poli¬ 
tics. They sacrifice the public good to private gain, 
which is precisely the indictment we bring against the 
demagogue. The men who wash their hands of public 
concerns are as truly responsible for municipal misrule 


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53 


as are the men who are in politics for “revenue only.” 
The former neglect politics for their private interests; 
the latter manipulate politics for their private interests. 
Touching municipal affairs, they are alike, selfish; and 
it is the selfishness of the former which gives the self¬ 
ishness of the latter the opportunity. We are afflicted 
with the bad Citizenship of good men.” When Kos¬ 
suth visited this country, he said: “If shipwreck should 
ever befall your country, the rock upon which it will 
split will be your devotion to your private interests at 
the expense of your duty to the State.” It has been a 
long time since that warning was given and yet the 
same danger is still present with us. 

In too many instances we could say, “A new 
Church, lifting its spires among money changers 
booths.” 

You are subpoened to attend Court as a juror in 
the trial of cases. You refuse to obey the mandates of 
the subpoena. For this neglect of duty you are sum¬ 
moned before the proper tribunal and fined for con¬ 
tempt of Court. Periodically you are summoned by 
the nation and municipality and State in which you re¬ 
side to appear at the polls to do your duty to the coun¬ 
try that protects you in life, liberty, and property, and 
your neglect to answer this summons, in person, is 
moral prodition. 

Some excuse themselves for neglecting their duty 
at the polls on the ground that there is too much cor¬ 
ruption in politics. In the words of Howard Crosby, 
“To let politics become a cesspool, and then avoid it 
because it is a cesspool, is a double crime.” 

It is a sad thing to say, and yet, nevertheless, true 
that the average business man knows as much about 
politics as does the mule about the profits of the street 
car line. This neglect of political duty on the part of 
business men of the country should be dealt with by 
law requiring them, and all other citizens, to vote at 
every election and to go to the polls by their own con¬ 
veyance or walk and not be taken by a hirling of some 
office-seeking demagogue. 


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Upon a Sunday afternoon an audience of more 
than one thousand persons, of young men mostly, as¬ 
sembled in Faniel Hall, Boston. The meeting was a 
new voters Festival. The purpose was to have the 
Freeman’s Oath taken. The entire audience rose and 
took it as follows: “I do solemnly bind myself that 
I will give my vote and suffrage as I shall judge in my 
own conscience may best conduce to the public weal, 
so help me God. 

This should be repeated, annually in every city, 
hamlet, and town in the United States, to keep alive a 
proper spirit of patriotism, and impress the voters of 
their responsibility as the sovereign power of the 
nation. 


“What makes a City great and strong? 

Not architectures graceful strength, 

Not factories extended length, 

But men who see civic wrong, 

And give their lives to make it right, 

And turn its darkness into light.” 

Second: True Americanism demands Honesty in 
government, the adoption of the Golden Rule in the 
business world, and enforcement of law, 

U. S. Senator Aldrich of R. I. said: “If business 
methods were applied to the business of the govern¬ 
ment in a way which he could do it, there would be an 
annual saving of three hundred million dollars a year.” 

Chauncy M. Depew thinks that the saving sug¬ 
gested by Senator Aldrich could be increased in pro¬ 
portion to the vast increase in appropriations. If that 
be true our savings would amount to over a billion dol¬ 
lars a year as the appropriations at the present time are 
over four times as much as they were in the days of 
Aldrich. 

Let the business men take the interest in politics 
that they should and the time would soon come when 
we would be in position to elect such honest and cap¬ 
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55 


government, as to be able to save the millions of dol¬ 
lars of the people that are now being wasted. This 
class of men in office could be depended upon to pass 
such legislation as would properly control commerce 
and trade and so bring to an end the present system of 
business piracy. And then the conducting the bus¬ 
iness of the government honestly and economically 
would have a salutary effect upon the business world. 
So long as our legislative bodies are composed, with 
rare exceptions, of unscrupulous politicians, we cannot 
expect legislation such as will compel the practice of 
honesty in the business dealings of the country. I re¬ 
peat, all this may be corrected if the people will but do 
their duty at the polls. Law enforcement is the crying 
need of the hour. 

There is no liberty without law, and no law with¬ 
out obedience. 

A wave of crime sweeping over the country 
seems to be a heritage of war. This is what we are 
experiencing today; and it calls for extreme vigilance 
on the part of our officials and all loyal citizens, who 
are quasi-officials, to see that law is made effectual. 
Every citizen should be impressed with the fact that 
“he who does not forbid a crime when he may, sanc¬ 
tions it,” says the law. 

“All men who pervert and befoul the source of 
law—these men we have called Enemies of the Re¬ 
public. They are worse—they are destroyers of a 
people. They are murderers of a civilization. They 
constitute a class of criminals very different from or¬ 
dinary criminals who break the laws; these men de¬ 
stroy law.” 

We are passing through a period today in which 
we are having to deal with a class of citizens of this 
type, some of whom are of good standing in society 
and the business circles; and before the nation can be 
considered safe we must settle with this class and set¬ 
tle right. They are the most subtle and dangerous en¬ 
emies we have to this Republic because of their station 
among men. They are a menace to our institutions in 


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more ways than one. They incite and provoke the 
vicious and roving element to embrace the doctrine of 
anarchism. 

Lincoln said: 

“LET EVERY AMERICAN, EVERY LOVER 
OF LIBERTY, EVERY WELL-WISHER TO POS¬ 
TERITY, SWEAR BY THE BLOOD OF THE REVO¬ 
LUTION NEVER TO VIOLATE IN THE LEAST 
PARTICULAR THE LAWS OF THE COUNTRY, 
AND NEVER TO TOLERATE THEIR VIOLATION 
BY OTHERS. AS THE PATRIOTS OF ’ 76 DID TO 
THE SUPPORT OF THE DECLARATION OF IN¬ 
DEPENDENCE, SO TO THE SUPPORT OF THE 
CONSTITUTION AND LAWS LET EVERY AMERI¬ 
CAN PLEDGE HIS LIFE, HIS PROPERTY, AND 
HIS SACRED HONOR. LET EVERY MAN RE¬ 
MEMBER THAT TO VIOLATE THE LAW IS TO 
TRAMPLE ON THE BLOOD OF HIS FATHERS, 
AND TO TEAR THE CHARTER OF HIS OWN AND 
HIS CHILDREN’S LIBERTY.” 

Lincoln, in speaking of the increasing disregard 
for law in 1839 and remedy to cure the evil, said: 

“Let reverence for the laws be breathed by ev¬ 
ery American mother to the lisping babe that prat¬ 
tles on her lap; let it be taught in schools, in seminaries 
and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling 
books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the 
pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in 
Courts of Justice. And in short, let it become the poli¬ 
tical religion of the nation, and let the old and the 
young, the rich and the poor, the grave and the gay of 
all sexes and tongues and colors and conditions sacri¬ 
fice unceasingly upon its alters.” 

No better education could be given the rising 
generation than to frame this last saying of Lincoln and 

have it hung on the walls of every school room in the 
land. 

And then, we must call a halt to our Courts in the 
grave error in which they have fallen, in postponing 
criminal cases and quashing indictments on unimport- 


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57 


ant technicalities. Mr. Justice Brown of the United 
States Supreme Court, who was on the bench for over 
thirty years, once said that in serious criminal cases the 
rendering of a verdict is only the beginning of the 
trial. 

Up to the time of the beginning of the World War 
of 1 9 1 4-’ 1 8, we were having more murders in the 
United States than all the rest of the civilized world 
combined; and not over five per cent of those charged 
with murder were convicted. It has been truthfully 
said that in these trying times, “A murderer is a better 
insurance risk than an aviator;’’ and that “Burglary is 
a less hazardous occupation than being a chauffeur.’’ 

There were more people murdered in the United 
States in the six years from 1912 to 1918 than there 
were Americans killed in the world war. It is stated that 
in New York City the chance of a murderer escaping 
punishment is 670 to 1. 

Eminent jurists and publicists lay the blame on 
the loose administration of criminal law. 

Andrew D. White, Ex-President of Cornell Uni¬ 
versity and Ex-Ambassador to Germany, a few years 
ago said: “I will make you a prophecy. It is now 
January 28th. I say that before the 28th of next Jan¬ 
uary comes around, 5000 men and women in the 
United States will have been murdered. But for the 
maladministration of the criminal laWs in the United 
States they would have escaped.’’ This is an awful in¬ 
dictment against those entrusted to the enforcement of 
law in our country. 

An account is given of a case reported in 138 
California Reports as follows:— 

“In 1900 a Dr. Huntington, charged with per¬ 
forming a criminal operation, was tried, convicted, and 
sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary. He had 
been indicted for murder, but the judge mercifully told 
the jury that under certain circumstances they could 
bring in a verdict of manslaughter. This was, of 
course, greatly in the prisoner’s favor and secured him 
the lighter sentence. The case was appealed, and three 


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years later, because of the instruction, though in the 
prisoner’s favor, was reversed. 1 he District Attorney 
prepared to try him again in 1907, but the constitution¬ 
al requirements that no one shall be twice put in jeo¬ 
pardy for the same offense stared him in the face. 
Seeking to find a means to bring the man to justice, 
the judge proposed to try him for murder and punish 
him for manslaughter. The higher court interfered, 
holding that the conviction of manslaughter had acted 
as an acquittal of murder. The higher court said: 
“We know of no case where a court could proceed to 
try a defendant for an offense of which he has been 
acquitted. He cannot be tried for manslaughter, be¬ 
cause he could never be accused of it; nor for murder, 
because he has been acquitted.’’ The court was 
afraid, as it expressed it, that “he may be convicted of 
a crime which the evidence shows he did not commit, 
for the reason that the evidence shows that he did com¬ 
mit another crime of which he has been acquitted.’’ 

The convicted one went free. 

There’s a case reported in 37 Southern Reporter 
page 568, in which the ends of justice were diverted; 
“Because the indictment for murder charged that the 
deed had been committed, ‘unlawfully and with malice’ 
etc. instead of ‘malice aforethought.’ 

The following is the history of a case tried in the 
District of Columbia:— 

“Two pianolas had been stolen. The indictment 
read two pianos.” Witnesses were brought in who 
testified that pianolas had been stolen, and not pianos, 
as charged. The indictment fell down and the ac¬ 
cused was discharged. A vigilant District Attorney 
was on hand, however, and promptly had the ac¬ 
cused re-arrested, charged with stealing two pianolas. 
The “shrewd” counsel defending the accused had a 
new set of witnesses this time—experts. The experts 
were able to convince the court that, after all, pianolas 
and pianos were the same thing. The court ruled that, 
having been tried once for stealing pianos, the accused 
could not twice be tried for the same offense. The 



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fact that two musical instruments had been stolen 
seems to have been overlooked.” 

This time the unconvicted one went free. 

Many more cases, equally as ridiculous, might be 

cited. 

Ex-President Taft, now a member of the Supreme 
Court of the United States, in an address to the stu¬ 
dents of Yale University, said: ‘‘I grieve for my coun¬ 
try to say that the administration of criminal law in all 
the States of this Union (there may be one or two ex¬ 
ceptions) is a disgrace to our civilization.” Mr. Taft 
when he said this was in position to know the situation 
in this all important matter; and coming from such a 
source as this we too ought to grieve for our country 
and be aroused to action with the determination of 
having the loop holes used for the miscarriage of jus¬ 
tice in our criminal courts, forever closed. 

It lies within the power of the lawyers of the 
country to bring about this much needed reform in our 
judicial procedure. Let them show their patriotism to 
country by getting together and formulating such legis¬ 
lation as will correct this evil, and see to it that it is 
put upon the Statute books and enforced. 

Let our criminal courts, so proceed in the adminis¬ 
tration of justice, that their judicial decisions will 
serve as a warning to the criminal classes, that the chief 
concern of the State is whether or not the prisoner at 
the bar is the one wanted to answer for the crime com¬ 
mitted; and if so, swift justice shall be meted out to 
him, without any delay or postponement; and with 
this certainty of just punishment for the commission of 
crime staring them in the face, lawlessness, will soon be 
so decreased that there will be no further cause for con¬ 
cern or anxiety as to the administration of criminal 
law. 

And then, crime would be greatly reduced by the 
several states passing laws prohibiting the sale of pis¬ 
tols and revolvers to minors and regulating their sale 
and ownership as to adults, and as a result taxes would 
be lessened to a marked degree by saving the millions 


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of dollars now being spent annually, in the prosecution 
of bandits who are daily ‘ holding up people on the 
highways of our cities and towns in every state of the 
Union, which crimes are made possible by the indis - 
criminate sale of firearms. England has been practical¬ 
ly free from that sort of crime for half a century by 
having the matter of firearms under police control as 
above suggested. 

THE STARS AND STRIPES 

Although we are one of the youngest of nations 
our flag is older than the flags of Great Britain, Spain, 
Portugal, Italy or Germany. She was born June 14, 
1 777. The red is typical of the blood patriots have 
shed for her, the white of the purity of their cause; and 
the blue of the blessings of heaven. 

Putting the flag on the school house was a wise 
move on the part of the government. It indoctrinates 
into the hearts of the childhood of the nation, a spirit 
of patriotism and love for its folds. 

We love the flag. A school house caught fire in 
New York City. A school boy rushed up four flights 
of stairs, two steps at a time, out on the roof, and pul¬ 
ling the old flag down from the mast head, he threw 
her over his left shoulder patriotically, and started 
back to terra firma. In passing by a room he heard 
talking therein. Opening the door he found two 
teachers eating a luncheon, and saved their lives. He 
no sooner reached the ground than he was surrounded 
by a crowd of men to congratulate him. One man be¬ 
ing struck with his bravery said, “Why did you run the 
risk of your life to save that flag?” His reply was, 
‘We are taught to love the flag in the public schools 
and I could not bear to see her go up in ashes.” 

A few years ago two boys, one fourteen, from 
Texas, and the other sixteen, from New Hampshire, 
went to Cuba. They were convicted of being spies and 
sent out to be shot. One of the boys pulled the old 
flag from his pocket and wrapping her around his per- 


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61 


son, pointing to her, he said, “Shoot a hole through 
there if you dare.” They didn’t shoot and the boys 
came home. Uncle Sam said to Spain, “Feed your re- 
concentradoes in Cuba.’’ This was answered by the 
blowing up of the Maine. The old flag sent forth the 
edict that Cuba must be free and she made her free in 
three months. 

Any American who says that the old flag cannot 
enforce any edict she may send forth is unworthy the 
right of suffrage and the privileges of American citi¬ 
zenship. 

May the day come when it will be put into the 
heart of some good President of the United States to 
call upon every property holder in America to plant a 
flag pole in his front yard. 

We have pointed out some of the defects of the 
management of our government, but we must remem¬ 
ber that mankind is human. It is not possible for 
human beings to arrive at a state of perfection in this 
life and not being perfect ourselves, we cannot expect 
human government to be absolutely free from imper¬ 
fections. While we have fallen into some errors as a 
nation, nevertheless. 

In educational advantages; 

In religious privileges; 

In explorations and discoveries in science; 

In mechanical skill; 

In inventive genius; 

In the utilization of the elements of nature; 

In true genuine bravery backed up by intelligence 
and skill, the old flag stands for a people above all 
other national ensigns. 

The seven wonders of the world have attracted 
attention throughout the civilized world, but the seven 
wonders of the United States as given by another, 
should be of greater interest to every American, than 
these world wonders. 

They are as follows; 

1 “No nation ever acquired so vast a territory 
in so quiet a manner. 


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2. No nation ever rose to such greatness by 
means so peaceable. 

3. No nation ever advanced so rapidly in all 
that constitutes national strength and capital. 

4. No nation ever rose to such a pinnacle of 
power in a space of time so incredibly short. 

5. No nation in so limited a time has developed 
such unlimited resources. 

6. No nation has ever existed the foundations of 
whose government were laid so broad and deep in the 
principles of justice, righteousness and truth. 

7. No nation has ever existed in which men 
have been left so free to work out their own fortune, 
and to worship God according to the dictates of their 
own conscience.” 

These seven wonders should be framed and post¬ 
ed in every Public Library, Y. M. C. A., Commercial 
Club, and Public School in America. 

Lincoln delivered a Washington birthday address 
in Springfield, Illinois, on February 22, 1842, just 
eighty years ago, and in the course of his remarks he 
said: ‘‘And when the victory shall be complete, when 
there shall be neither a slave, nor a drunkard on earth, 
how proud the title of that land which may truly claim 
to be the birthplace and the cradle of both those revo¬ 
lutions that shall have ended in that victory.” These 
words are vaticinal. 

This Western Continent is not only providentially 
located and arranged as I have stated, but, the Ameri¬ 
can Republic established therein is destined to be the 
birthplace and cradle of such world-wide reforms as 
are necessary for the preservation and uplift of the 
human race. We wiped out slavery, put woman on an 
equality with man, socially and politically, and out¬ 
lawed the sum of all villanies, the liquor traffic, and by 
90 doing put our country in harmony with the Declara¬ 
tion of Independence. 

When we entered the world war we thrilled the 
hearts of the civilized world by declaring that we did 
not take up arms for increase of commerce or extension 


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of territory, but that the world may be made safe for 
Democracy and we proved to the world that we were 
sincere in this declaration. And then at the instance of 
the pleadings of the mothers of the land who furnish 
the boys for carnage in war, our Congress called a con¬ 
ference of the Four Powers of the world for the purpose 
of bringing about an international agreement for dis¬ 
armament, and coming to such an understanding with 
each other as to insure world wide peace in the future, 
and to the great joy of the people of the civilized world 
there was more accomplished at this conference to that 
end than the most sanquine ever dreamed. “God 
moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform,” 
and events signify that His base of operation at the 
present day, is no other than the United States of 
America. 

“America is another name for opportunity. Our 
whole history appears like a last effort of divine Provi¬ 
dence in behalf of the human race.”—Emerson. 

We have among us an element who are so consti¬ 
tuted as not to be able to see liquid sunshine in the 
storm—nothing but clouds and darkness. They exag- 
erate upon every wrong, and instead of trying to right 
the wrong they picture it as being the fruit of our gov¬ 
ernmental system and then proceed to attack the gov¬ 
ernment. 

We would say to the laboring classes, let them 
organize under the leadership of intelligent men—men 
whose lives prove them to be loyal to country, and 
they may ask whatsoever they will that is right and get 
it. They have the power to do it. There is no issue 
of importance that is right but what can be made a 
policy of government by proper agitation and educa¬ 
tion on the subject. The whole history of our country 
proves this to be true. But the leadership of Bolshe¬ 
vists and men of Anarchistic tendencies will never win 
out on American soil. 

The conservative element in this country sympa¬ 
thize with the laboring classes, and would like to sup¬ 
port them in some of their proposed measures, but their 


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neglect to suppress the wild-eyed agitators in their 
midst naturally gives them a feeling of distrust and 
leads them to refrain from giving them a helping hand. 
For instance, in the country in which I was practicing 
law, the labor element elected a certain lawyer Judge 
of the County Court, against the combination of the 
Republican and Democratic machines, they uniting on 
one of the ablest men of the County for that position. 

The first case brought before this judge was one 
where the defendants were a corporation, and the 
plaintiff an employee of the same. Arguments by the 
respective attorneys were made in the matter before the 
Court, and briefs submitted. Whereupon, this Judge 
took from his pocket an opinion he had previously pre¬ 
pared and proceeded to read it, deciding against the 
defendants and in favor of the plaintiff. A few days af¬ 
ter that a committee of the bar association called upon 
this Judge and gave him his choice to either resign or 
stand trial for impeachment and he chose the former. 
Now if the leaders of this political movement had had 
the good sense to have given their chosen Judge to 
understand that he must be a just and impartial judge, 
representing as he did the labor element, they would 
have gained the confidence of the entire people in 
their sincerity of purpose to see that the wheels of the 
Court so grind, that justice would be dealt out to all; 
that there would be no respecter of persons in its rul¬ 
ings; but in their failure to do this they lost all, their 
organization becoming extinct soon thereafter. 

There is a certain element among the laboring 
class who claim that there are, among those who repre¬ 
sent the interests, some who resort to unfair and dis¬ 
honorable means to gain their point, and they, there¬ 
fore, seem to reason that they are justified in using the 
same tactics. We would remind such that two wrongs 
never make right, and that right is never successfully 
fought out in that way. 

I declare that our system of government is near¬ 
er perfection than any other government on the face 
of the Globe, that it being a government in which 


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the people are the soverign power, there can be no 
other system of government of the people by which 
the peoples’ rights may be secured with greater certain¬ 
ty. There is nothing reasonable but what lies in the 
power of the people to secure. Nothing more could be 
gained or hoped for under any republican form of 
government. 

Under our form of government there is no citizen 
but what is protected in his every right. If there is a 
wrong suffered, it is not by reason of any fault of our 
system of government. It lies at the door of the peo¬ 
ple. 

Instead, therefore, of unjustly attacking the 
government, it should be loyally defended, and an 
appeal be made to the people to right the wrongs ex¬ 
isting against the principles of the government. Let 
the people see that our old Ship of State sails under the 
regulations of the Constitution and strictly on the prin¬ 
ciples of the Declaration of Independence, and no 
person living any where under the Stars and Stripes will 
have just cause for complaint. 

“They builded better than they knew.”’ 

In conclusion I would refresh the mind of the 
reader of the fact, that we see a great truth, at first, 
through a smoked glass, as it were, and when we final¬ 
ly discover its clear outlines we wonder at our dense 
ignorance; and that all great movements for the uplift 
of mankind are, with rare exceptions, inaugerated by 
an energetic minority, who thrash out the subject mat¬ 
ter on the platform and in the press, and finally bring 
the majority to their idea of thinking. 

This was the case in our struggle for indefendence, 
but for some reason those who have charge of our 
public schools have history so taught as to make it 
appear that all the people of the thirteen original states 
were united for a free and independent nation. 

I remember in my school days in the book I 
studied on history there was a picture of an arch con¬ 
sisting of thirteen stone blocks, representing the thir¬ 
teen states, Pennsylvania being the key-stone, and all 


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cemented together for liberation from England. Now, 
we consider this to be a grave mistake. 

By their being taught the truth in the matter, in 
after years, they would not be so apt to be discouraged 
in the disappointments of the struggles of life, but 
rather it would be a source of encouragement to them. 

The facts are, for six months after the battle of 
Lexington, so strong was the Anglo-Saxon spirit of 
conservatism and loyalty among the Colonists that the 
few extremists who dared to speak of a violent disrup¬ 
tion of all bonds between England and America en¬ 
tailed chastisement upon themselves, and were univer¬ 
sally censured. 

When the Revolution finally began about one 
hundred thousand persons quit the Country. Nearly 
three thousand took the oath of allegiance to the Brit¬ 
ish Crown, many of whom were wealthy and of high 
standing. , 

When Washington retreated from New York City 
through New Jersey, the British in pursuit, his force 
was reduced to 3,500, and they were ragged, half fed, 
and wretched in mind and body. Most of them left 
the moment their time expired and more troops were 
with difficulty drummed up to take their places. In 
the latter part of 1776 the Continental army was in 
rags, because of lack of sufficient loyalty on the part 
of the people to support it. Hundreds deserted and 
took the oath of allegiance to the Crown. It seemed to 
Washington that the army would melt away. The 
total army numbered about 14,000, while the British 
army numbered 25,000 in superb condition. 

The suffering at Valley Forge was from gross 
mismanagement rather than from poverty of the coun¬ 
try. There were scarcely two thousand men fit for 
duty there at one time. Says Gordon, “Hogsheads of 
shoes, stockings and clothing were lying at different 
places on the roads and in the woods perishing for 
want of teams or of money to pay the teamster.” And 
there was not enough patriotism in Pennsylvania among 


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the people to do the hauling gratis for the relief of our 
starving and bleeding army. 

The soldiers had no meat, yet there was plenty of 
it for the British at Philadelphia. Farmers stole to that 
city with their choicest products because they received 
British gold in payment. 

Washington ordered the farmers within a radius 
of seventy miles to thresh out one-half of their grain. 
The farmers refused, and burned what they could not 
sell, to keep it from the famishing patriots. Washing¬ 
ton wrote: “Idleness, dissipation and extravagance 
seemed to have laid hold of most. Speculation and 
an insatiate thirst for riches have gotten the better of 
every other consideration and almost every order of 
men.” 

Washington retreated across New Jersey and it 
seemed as if every house had a piece of flannel tucked 
on the front as a sign that they were royalists. Not a 
hundred of volunteers were picked up on that woeful 
march. 

A Royalist regiment was formed in Boston of 
Highland Emigrants and other Royalist battalions. 
After Arnold betrayed his country the army he led into 
Virginia were mostly American Royalists. 

Half of the Maryland militia sent to Washington’s 
help deserted just before the battle of Germantown. 
When Philadelphia was in the hands of the British, 
Pennsylvania had barely twelve hundred militia in ser¬ 
vice. 

In 1781 one thousand soldiers perjured them¬ 
selves to escape military duty, a number becoming in¬ 
formers, spies, and guides for the enemy. Drunken¬ 
ness and theft were common. Officers stole the money 
entrusted to them for the privates. 

In the extreme South Tories were numerous and 
in many places civil war reigned. 

John Adams shows that New York and Pennsyl¬ 
vania were so evenly divided in sentiment that if they 
had not been kept in line by New England on the North 
and by Virginia on the South they would have joined 


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the British. The two parties were about equal in 
North Carolina, while in South Carolina the Tories were 
the more numerous. 

Georgia virtually swung back to the Crown, and 
the people were about to take it out of the Confeder¬ 
ation when Cornwallis surrendered. 

When the British retired from the South 13,271 
Americans, including 8,676 blacks, went with them. 

John Adams said that one-trhird of the people 
were opposed to the Revolution from its opening to its 
close. 

Lecky, the English historian, says, “that the 
Revolution was the work of an energetic minority who 
succeeded in committing an undecided and fluctuating 
majority to courses for which they had little love and 
leading them step by step to a position from which it 
was impossible to recede.” 

The soldiers invited Washington to become their 
King. They were opposed to the crown under British 
rule, but were willing to place it upon the head of him 
who had led them on to victory. 

But that America was to be free was “writ in the 
book of fate.” Soon after the close of the Revolution 
the people became very discontented. Says one, “The 
spectre of civil war rose in a threatening attitude be¬ 
fore every eye.” Washington wrote, “There are com¬ 
bustibles in every state to which a spark might set 
fire.” Anarchy seemed to abound in many places. 
Something had to be done, and that quickly. A gen¬ 
eral convention was called at Philadelphia to meet on 
the 2nd day of May, 1 787, it to consist of delegates 
elected by the several state legislatures. These dele¬ 
gates met and they seemed to be hopelessly divided. 
Nearly four months elapsed before they could agree 
upon a plan. An attempt was made to abandon the 
Articles of Confederation and adopt in its stead a New 
Constitution, but a majority among the delegates was 
against this change, Patrick Henry being one of the op¬ 
ponents. After a long struggle lasting several months 
the delegates reluctantly agreed to a Constitution 


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which was submitted to the general state legislatures 
for their adoption, and while a majority of the people 
seemed to be opposed to it, the Constitutional Conven¬ 
tion had adjourned, and the legislatures of the states 
of the Union were forced to adopt it or be responsible 
for a state of anarchy which would follow, and they 
ch ose the former to the latter. So “the Constitution 
had been extorted from the grinding necessity of a re¬ 
luctant people”—contrary to their will—through the 
superior statesmanship of an energetic minority. 

“When the Constitution was presented to the 
people for ratification, a storm of opposition was 
raised. Men who had fought all through the Revolu¬ 
tion now declared that they would fight again rather 
than have the Constitution the law of the land. 

“The conflict began in Pennsylvania. When the 
question came before the House, the Anti-Federalists 
withdrew, leaving two less than a quorum. The Ser- 
geant-at-Arms failed to bring them in, but a crowd 
collected and dragged James McCalmont and Jacob 
Wiley to the House and held them in their seats until 
the roll was called. 

“In all the other states the storm of opposition 
was almost as bitter, and the Constitution had already 
become a law a year before North Carolina and Rhode 
Island ratified it.”—McMaster’s History of the People 
of the U. S. 

Alexander Hamilton came to this country from 
the West Indies when he was but sixteen years of age. 
After attending school about a year, our Independence 
being declared, he cast his lot with the patriots, and 
history proves that he was the brains of the Revolu¬ 
tion and of the nation in its infancy. 

Forty-seven members of the New York Legisla¬ 
ture were opposed to the Constitution and only nine¬ 
teen were in favor of it. The majority faction had 
Governor Clinton as their leader, while the minority 
faction had Hamilton to champion their cause. They 
met in Poughkeepsie, and for three weeks the battle 
between the contending forces waged. The majority 


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proposed to ratify the Constitution conditionally. In 
this they were defeated by the superior tactics of 
Hamilton. 

They then moved to ratify it unconditionally, 
with the understanding that after a certain number of 
years the State might secede if it saw fit. Against this 
proposition Hamilton made his great speech, closing 
with the following words: 

“Now, listen, gentlemen. No one so much as I 
wishes that this Constitution be ratified to the honor of 
the State of New York, but upon this I have deter¬ 
mined; that the enlightened and patriotic minority 
shall not suffer for the selfishness and obstinacy of the 
majority. I therefore announce to you plainly, gen¬ 
tlemen, that if you do not ratify this Constitution, with 
no further talk of impossible amendments and condi¬ 
tions that Manhattan Island, Westchester, and Kings 
Counties, shall secede from the State of New York 
and form a state by themselves, leaving the rest of 
your state without a seaport, too contemptible to make 
treaties, with only a small and possibly rebellious mil¬ 
itia to protect her northern boundaries from certain 
rapacity of Great Britain, with the scorn and dislike of 
the Union, and with no hope of assistance from the 
Federal Government which is assured remember, no 
matter what the straits. That is all.” 

During the great debate New Hampshire and Vir¬ 
ginia had ratified the Constitution, and that, together 
with Hamilton’s words of warning, brought the New 
York legislators to their senses and the Constitution 
was ratified by them without any conditions. Hamil¬ 
ton re-entered New York City the hero of the hour. 

When our Constitution was finally ratified by the 
States, a nation was born in a day. That Constitution 
has become our political Bible. 

But, the framers of the Constitution, in their de¬ 
liberations, must have reached the conclusion that the 
people at that time were not sufficiently experienced 
in the venture of a Republican form of government to 
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a man to fill the office of Chief Executive. The or¬ 
ganization of our republic was a new departure from 
the old forms of government, it was an untried experi¬ 
ment, a government unlike any other government. So 
they provided that Presidential electors should be ap¬ 
pointed in such manner as the legislatures of the sev¬ 
eral States directed, and that the person receiving the 
highest number of electoral votes, was made President 
and the one receiving the next highest, Vice-President. 
Under this system a President and Vice-President might 
be elected of opposite political faith, as was done in our 
third Presidential election, when John Adams, a Fed¬ 
eralist was elected President, and Thomas Jefferson, a 
Republican, Vice-President. 

This system was finally changed by amendment to 
the Constitution to our present method of electing the 
President and Vice-President, and even now we do 
not elect these officers by popular vote; and condi¬ 
tions are such that the candidate receiving the largest 
number of the votes cast may not be elected as in the 
case of the election of Benjamin Harrison in 1888. His 
vote was 95,494 less than that of Cleveland’s, his op¬ 
ponent. 

I would like to have the ear of the American peo¬ 
ple in the matter of a change in our system of voting: 

In this country a political party is a separate nation 
within a nation, a government within a government. 
While it has not the power to make the laws it has the 
power to express itself as to those which ought to 
exist. Party platforms are incipient legislation. 

If the opposing parties carried on their campaigns 
on a single issue, it would not be difficult for a man to 
leave his party whenever it failed to take the side, on 
the issue up for settlement, that was in accord with his 
ideas of the same, and give his support to the party 
that did represent his ideas. But upon a number of 
issues this is not so easy. Parties have been in the 
habit of inserting in their platforms a combination of 
issues, and seldom if ever, the voter is able to agree 
with all the principles of the platform of his party, and 


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usually he is guided in his political action by the result 
of taking a general average of all the principles of each 
party. Whichever party in its general average comes 
the nearest to his ideas he supports. 

It can be plainly seen that under this rule of party 
support it would be an easy matter for us to have a 
minority government upon one or more questions of 
public concern. Take the question of free silver. If 
the two dominant parties should go before the people 
on that one issue, the voters would readily divide them¬ 
selves according to their ideas of the question and the 
majority would rule, either for or against free silver. 
But if this question was presented in each of said part¬ 
ies in company with half dozen other questions it would 
be possible for us to have a minority government rela¬ 
tive to it. One party we will say representing nearly 
one-half of the voters of the country may be unani¬ 
mously against free silver while only one-third of the 
other party is against it and the other two-thirds are in 
favor of it. But of this party the third who are op¬ 
posed to free silver will go with the other two-thirds, 
on the ground that the general average of the princi¬ 
ples of their party is better than that of the opposing 
party, and as a result the doctrine of free silver would 
triumph when at the same time two-thirds of the voters 
were against it. The people could correct this imper¬ 
fect system of voting through the Cumulative System. 
Let the law be such that political parties shall adopt in 
a concise form and unmistakable wording, a platform 
of principles, so framing the same that each principal 
or policy therein shall constitute a separate section com¬ 
monly known by the appellation of “plank,” that 
these platforms of principles shall be printed on the 
official ballot and the electors given the opportunity to 
vote for or against these planks as they deem it best 
and the measures advocated in the planks, receiving 
the endorsement of a majority of those voting shall be 
made legally sanctioned policies of government, pro¬ 
viding they are not repugnant to the Declaration of In¬ 
dependence or contrary to the Constitution. 


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And if a respectable number of qualified voters 
desire any important measure voted upon that is not 
included in any of the planks of the parties they may 
have it put on the ballot by filing with the proper 
authorities a petition with their signatures attached 
thereto, asking that it be done. This system enables 
the voter not only to vote on candidates for office but 
on the policies proposed by the parties. Under such a 
system we would have a majojrity government on all 
questions up for settlement in the field of politics. 

It includes both the initiative and referendum 
without any extra expense to the State and enables the 
people to secure the adoption of measures in govern¬ 
ment without being forced to tear down old parties 
and build up new political organizations, for the accom¬ 
plishment of that end. It has been advocated by such 
men of political science as James G. Marshall, Thomas 
Hare, John Stuart Mill, Geo. H. Yeaman and others. 

It has been held by not a few that the power of 
the United States Supreme Court to declare acts of 
Congress unconstitutional, should be taken away from 
that tribunal. This could not be done with safety. 

To make a nation stable and enduring, it must 
have some foundation principles on which to anchor, 
and some department of the government must have 
the authority to see that those principles are not 
ignored or violated in any legislative measures. In a 
government like ours the department most capable and 
competent to perform this duty, is the Judicial Depart¬ 
ment. There is where this matter rightfully belongs. 

Supposing Congress should pass a law making it 
a crime for any person to go outside of the State in 
which he or she resides and marry a person of some 
other State, attaching thereto the penalty of a fine and 
imprisonment for its violation. Of course, such a law 
would be an outrage, and to deprive the Federal Court 
of the right to declare such a rediculous law unconsti¬ 
tutional would be a still greater outrage. 

We have made mention of the fact that the people 
had the power to force governmental action against 


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any wrong within the scope of the authority of the gov¬ 
ernment to correct, but we wish we were able to re¬ 
fresh the minds of every American of the achievements 
of the people made possible under our institutions as 
they have been established for the last century and a 
half. They simply have been without limit regardless 
of station in the beginning of life. 

In 1767 a woman was left alone in the vast wil¬ 
derness of North Carolina in almost utter destitution. 
Far away from friends and associates she had to make 
provisions to support and educate her family, num¬ 
bering four boys. When the Revolution broke out 
and bodies of the butchered lay around her humble 
cottage, her youngest son, who was born after the death 
of his father, visited the scene and looked upon it in 
solemn thought. Although very poor in health, at the 
age of thirteen, he became a soldier in the Continental 
army. With education very much limited, he labored 
on after the war until he finally was elected our seventh 
President—Andrew Jackson. 

January 11, 1 75 7, a male child was born on the 
British West India Islands. While very young he be¬ 
came motherless, his father failed in business and re¬ 
mained impoverished until his death. Friends raised 
a fund and sent him to America when he was a mere 
boy. Fie enlisted in the army for freedom when he was 
but seventeen years of age, served on Washington’s 
staff, and was first Scretary of the Treasurer—the 
“Founder of the Public Credit of the United States’’— 
the Author of ‘‘that masterpiece of modern Statesman¬ 
ship,’’ the Federal Constitution. He was of great as¬ 
sistance to Washington in the writing of his Farewell 
address. He possessed the greatest intellect ever known 
in American politics—Alexander Hamilton. 

A young man in entering the City of Philadelphia 
walked the streets, his pockets stuffed out with shirts 
and socks and a loaf of bread under each arm, a young 
woman who afterwards became his wife, making fun 
of him—Benjamin Franklin, the great Philanthropist, 
Scientist, Philosopher, and Statesman. 




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75 


A young man walked from Erie, Pennsylvania, to 
New York City, the sum of his wordly goods being ten 
dollars, in money. This was Horace Greely, one of 
the world’s greatest editors. 

Garfield rose from a driver on the heal path of 
the Canal to the highest office in the gift of the people. 

The immortal Lincoln was taken from a log cabin 
of the most primitive style and after passing through a 
wilderness of deprivation and solitude for a period of 
forty years he was finally placed in the White House 
at the Capitol of the nation. 

James G. Blaine was a poor boy—a self-made 
man—Blaine, the “Plumed Knight” of Maine. 

The mother of Thomas A. Edison taught him to 
read, and he began work as a train boy on the Grand 
Trunk R. R.—Edison the Electric Wizard. 

Very few labored under more adverse circum¬ 
stances in his younger days than did Henry Ford, and 
yet as one has said, “Henry Ford has lighted the torch 
of a new world in our midst. A new human society 
based upon fraternity and equality, on equal distribu¬ 
tion of worldly goods, upon the good will of man, up¬ 
on love of mankind, is his ideal. Under the very eyes 
of his astonished contemporaries he has created his 
happy community.” 

John Hopkins, founder of the renowned hospital 
at Baltimore, and millionaire started in life, as a com¬ 
mon clerk in a store. 

Andrew Carnegie, the multi-millionaire, studied 
while others played, and applied his knowledge, first, 
to telegraphy, then to railroading, and finally to iron 
making. 

Alexander T. Stewart landed in this country a 
poor boy of sixteen, friendless, homeless and almost 
penniless, yet he became the dry goods prince of the 
world. 

John Wanamaker began life by working before 
and after school hours, turning bricks in his father’s 
brick yard. 

Investigation has disclosed the fact that about 


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seventy three per cent of our rich and prosperous men 
came from the humble walks of life. 

Any person in this country who is well born and 
has a stick-to-a-tive nature and a heart that is loyal to 
self and to country may, if he wills, at least, reach a 
sufficient height on the ladder of progress to be able 
to live in affluence and self-security. 

This being true, I am amazed at any American 
having the inclination to attack our institutions, as 
some do, as being ineffectual, in establishing the right 
standard of justice among the different classes in the 
field of Capital and Labor. 

And my observation has been that the ones who 
make the greatest hue and cry are generally those who 
receive the highest compensation for their labor, and 
that those who receive moderate wages are the ones 
who strive to lay aside a portion of their earnings for 
a rainy day and build homes for themselves and their 
families. 

Let the employer and the employe get together 
like men of equality—men with like feelings in ambi¬ 
tion for the needs and comforts of life; in home ties, 
and in love of country. Let them sing together in one 
grand chorus 

“My country ’tis of thee. Sweet land of lib¬ 
erty, of thee I sing; Land where my fathers died, 
Land of the pilgrims pride, from every mountain 
side let freedom ring.” 

And then let them shake hands and agree to be 
just to each other and by so doing help God, in His 
last effort in behalf of the human race. 

In anti-deluvian days civilization became so con¬ 
taminated, it seems, that with one exception, Noah, all 
had to be exterminated but he and his family, to save 
the human race from complete annihilation, and this 
was done through the flood. From that time until the 
escape of the Children of Israel from bondage or for 
about 1 000 years there were no Holy Scriptures, or 


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Oracles of God, or laws of His, given to man by in¬ 
spiration in writing for his guidance, although God had 
manifested Himself, we are told in many ways in 
directing His chosen people, as to the true standard of 
right living. God not only communicated with the 
Child ren of Israel directly, but furnished them with 
the Scriptures of the Old Testament through His in¬ 
spired writers. 

After a time the Personality of the Almighty vs. 
the Pagan Kings and their pomp and show became an 
issue with the Children of Israel. 

The glitter of wealth and license in licentiousness 
of every kind among the masses in pagan governments 
had its corrupt and defiling influence with Israel, and 
while they did not surrender entirely to the rule of 
paganism they abandoned the government of The¬ 
ocracy, and put themselves under a government of the 
nature of a Monarchy. 

As we have before stated, the Lord told Samuel 
that His people had rejected Him. Then it was that the 
personality of the Almighty began to lose its attract¬ 
iveness with the Israelites, and they continued to drift 
away from the policies of the government which He 
had established for them, until at last their civilization 
as a nation became so corrupt that it sunk into decay, 
leaving them wanderers on the face of the earth. The 
personality of those in authority over them could not 
save them. It is the character of civilization that has 
to do with the permanency of human governments, be 
they Republics or Monarchies. The Jewish nation had 
its Saul, David, and Soloman to rule over them, but it 
could not stand because of the wickedness and corrup¬ 
tion of its civilization. Rome had her Caeser and 
other rulers of exceptionally strong personality, but she 
too went down for the same reason. Civilization has 
had a hard struggle for existance. Nation after nation 
in different parts of the earth have risen and thrived 
for a time under their form of government, and gone 
down. This planet of ours is a graveyard of nations 
of civilization of different types. 


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Our civilization is different than all the others in¬ 
tervening between the time of the Jewish government, 
over which God ruled directly, and the day of its 
birth, that being about 1900 years ago. The saving 
power of our present civilization is the fruit of the 
spiritual and intellectual seed sown and deeds per¬ 
formed by the Man of Galilee. This recognized Ruler 
of the civilization of today has a personality in great¬ 
ness and magnetism never before revealed in any 
earthly being. It is the personality of God through 
His Son. We have every reason, therefore, for being 
hopeful of the perpetuity of our civilization—of its not 
suffering the fate of those that are pa^t and gone. 
Doctor Ferrero, in a recent volume on Rome says: 
“The doctrine of the moral quality of all men had al¬ 
ready been enunciated by some of the great philoso¬ 
phers of antiquity; but Christianity was the only power 
that had succeeded in forcing this doctrine upon the 
universal conscience with the result of destroying the 
true aristocratic government and of creating a modern 
democracy. Once the principle according to which all 
men were not equal on the contrary unequality was de¬ 
stroyed in the consciences of the masses, aristocracy 
might remain a social convention accepted at certain 
epochs, as a convenience, but it ceased to be what it 
had been in ancient times—an organic and almost 
sacred form of civil society. This explains why in the 
Christian and Mussulman worlds aristocratic govern¬ 
ments have always been weak and must be considered 
as pale imitations of the true great aristocracies of the 
ancient world.” 

But it is said that the first argument for Indepen¬ 
dence in America was from Thomas Paine, an Infidel. 
There did appear in the Pennsylvania Journal under 
date of October 18, 1775 an article credited to Paine 
in which were the following words; “I hesitate not for a 
moment to believe that the Almighty will finally separ¬ 
ate America from Britain—call it Independency or 
what you will it is the cause of God and humanity, it 
will go on.” 


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Had it not been for the Bible and especially the 
teachings of Christ, Thomas Paine would have had no 
more comprehension of what “equality of man” or 
“Independency” means than do the barbarians of 
Africa. He acknowledged he was no student of the 
Bible and as a result he was unaware of the source from 
which the knowledge he possessed on the rights of man 
came, and being thus blinded he rejected the Author 
of the doctrine he with voice and pen espoused. 

There are, it seems apparently few who realize the 
Fountain Head of our freedom and independence and 
the Anchorage of our safety. 

In the words of Wendell Phillips, “The answer of 
the Shastas is India. 

The answer of the Koran is Turkey. 

The answer of Confucianism is China. 

The answer of the Bible is the Christian Civili¬ 
zation of Protestant Europe and America.” 

The preservation of our present civilization and 
its advance movement in the discovery of the powers 
in the elements of nature and in intelligence and civic 
rightousness depend upon the persistence with which 
the religious and moral forces keep the personality of 
God, in the person of Jesus the Christ, before the mass¬ 
es. The Son of Man declares that he is the Light of 
the World, and that if He be lifted up He will draw all 
men unto Him. As the years go by we are impressed 
more and more of the truthfulness of these claims of 
His. At the time of His crucifixion He had but a 
handful of followers and the most of them were 
women. Soon thereafter His disciples began to rapidly 
increase. 

Rome then ruled the world, and time and again 
she used every means within her power to destroy the 
Christian religion by putting to death by the most cruel 
torture, all professors of religion and destroying the 
Holy Scriptures; but instead of conquering in her ne¬ 
farious purpose she was conquered. 

Christianity was visited with the horrible Inquisi¬ 
tion of the 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th Centuries, the 


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so called “Holy War,” and entirely obliterated in the 
far East by the Turks and Tartars. In other periods of 
the past conspiracies were formed against Christians, 
these conspirators subjecting them to most cruel tor¬ 
ture and destroying them by the thousands. And not¬ 
withstanding all these persecutions they have increased 
from a mere handful to above five hundred million, 
extending to the uttermost parts of the world. This 
increase amounts, on an average, to over two hundred 
and sixty three thousand per year, for the last nineteen 
hundred years. Bishop Fred B. Fisher, who recently 
finished a tour of India, contends that the Christiani¬ 
zation of that land of withered inhabitants is inevitable; 
that while India may remain nominally Hindu or Mo¬ 
hammedan or both, the teachings of Christ are so pene¬ 
trating these faiths that sweeping, fundamental changes 
are taking place, in themselves distinctly Christian. 
We have had a mistaken idea as to doctrine of 
“Separation of Church and State.” We have interpre¬ 
ted it to mean “Separation of State and Christianity,” 
when its actual meaning is “Separation of State 
and any and all Religious Denominations.” Let 
us apply in government and in the business world 
the principles taught in the Sermon on the Mount, 
chief among which is the Golden Rule, and world wide 
permanent peace and prosperity will follow. Instead 
of doing this, however, we have, to a more or less de¬ 
gree been “Struggling ignorantly forward rather than 
upwards, jostling, contending, quarrelling,—each man 
selfish, but demanding that others should be kind,— 
each one unjust, but clamoring against others for their 
injustice,—each one exacting, severe or cruel, but re¬ 
quiring that others should be lenient.” 

This system in the business world and in the oper¬ 
ation of government and international relations always 
has and always will spell “Failure.” May the advance 
guards in human affairs turn over a new leaf and do 
that which man has not as yet shown the wisdom to 
do, viz.: profit by the mistakes of the civilizations of 
the past, and thus save the civilization of today in its 


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onward march in intellectual and moral growth. All 
signs point to America as being the last stand taken 
by the Almighty to get mankind sufficiently in sub¬ 
jection to His will to enable them to see the vision of 
their salvation on this earth. That vision is being able 
to peer through the worldly mists of today and behold 
the certainty of “Peace on Earth and Good Will to 
Men,” through the adoption of such policies in human 
governments as are in harmony with the teachings of 
the Man of Galilee. 

In the beginning God created Man to live under 
the guidance of Conscience, and after a trial of some 
centuries he proved a failure, so much so that God 
caused the world to be destroyed. 

After the earth became re-inhabited, through Noah 
and his family, Man was put under the Written Law, 
which law was given to the Israelites and entrusted to 
them that they might learn to do all the words of this 
law, and in the fulness of time spread the blessings of 
this heritage among all the other nations of the earth. 

Under the law man proved a failure. Finally 
and seemingly as a last resort, Christ left God to save 
M an, and this plan of the Almighty is still on trial, and 
Jno thoughtful man doubts the fact, that upon the suc¬ 
cess of this last stand of the Great Jehovah depends 
the preservation from destruction of the human race. 

DeTocqueville said, “Democracy will save itself 

by turning into a Theocracy or ruin itself by not doing 
* * 

so. 

Whether a nation be a Democracy or a Monarchy, 
Natural Law and Revelation, together, must be the 
Masters in its governmental policies. These are the 
only enduring supports for the maintenance of man’s 
peaceful and intellectual earthly existence. 

They are the only controlling influences that will 
enable us to Bridge the Chasm between Capital and 
Labor, avoid Unfriendly Relations between nations, 
and reveal to us the light that will open up to us the 
means by which the war stricken nations of the earth 
may be lifted from their present state of Bankruptcy 


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and given new life and hope for their salvation. The 
world is suffering today for not having had this light, 
and to the aid of this great want all enlightened minds 
should give their best thought and service. 

“Talk about the question of the day! There is 
but one question, and that is the Gospel. It can, and 
will, correct everything needing correction. My only 
hope of the world is in bringing the human mind into 
contact with Divine revelation.”—Gladstone. 














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